Lot 462
462
Robert Mangold (b. 1937)
Robert Mangold (b. 1937)

Three-Color Frame Painting

Details
Robert Mangold (b. 1937)
Three-Color Frame Painting
signed, titled and dated 'R. Mangold 1985-86 Three-Color Frame Painting' (on the reverse of the pink element)
acrylic and blank pencil on canvas in three parts
overall: 91 x 80 1/8 in. (231 x 203. 5 cm.)
Painted in 1985-86.
Provenance
Texas Gallery, Houston
Emily Leland Todd, Houston
Private collection, New York
Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
C. Sauer and U. Raussmüller, Robert Mangold, Schaffhausen, 1993, pp. 154-155 (illustrated in color).
R. Pentzinger and S. Singer, eds., Robert Mangold, Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings 1982-1998, Wiesbaden, 1998, p. 183, no. 607 (illustrated in color).
R. Shiff, R. Storr and A.C. Danto, eds., Mangold, London, 2000, p. 102-103 and 334 (illustrated).
Z. de Weck Ardalan, ed., Robert Mangold: X Plus and Frame Paintings/Woprks from the 1980s, London, 2009, p. 84, no. 18 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Washington D.C., The Corcoran Gallery, 40th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, March-July 1986 (illustrated).
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; Milwaukee Art Museum and New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Planar Visions: Abstraction, Geometry, Painting: Selected Geometric Abstract Painting in America Since 1945, September 1989-August 1990, pp. 175 and 232 (illustrated).
New York, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Academy-Institute Invitational Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, March 1992.
Princeton Museum of Art, In Celebration: Works of Art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of the Art Museum, February-June 1997, p. 315, no. 299 (illustrated in color).

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Lot Essay

Mangold's flat, front art contains so many asymmetrical surprises that you would think it odd to discover rules to account for them. Indeed, his rules are entirely flexible and come only after the fact, with his experience of having generated the forms that characterize the specific sizes. He doesn't establish inviolable principles.
-R. Shiff in "A Compelling Uniqueness," Robert Mangold, Aspen, 2003, p. 27.

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