Blue Flowers

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Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992)
Blue Flowers
signed and dated 'Richard Pousette-Dart 58' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas in artist's frame
24 ¾ x 19 5/8 in. (62.9 x 49.8 cm.)
Painted in 1958.

Provenance

Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1960

Exhibited

University of Miami, Lowe Art Museum; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art and New Brunswick, Rutgers University, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Abstract Expressionism: Other Dimensions, October 1989-June 1990, p. 51, no. 90.

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‘The insistent and magical character of his recent work evolved naturally from his first early abstractions of the late 1930’s. From then until now he has devoted himself with rare integrity to his aim to express the meaning of life. Today, at the peak of his career, he works with great maturity and assurance producing statements of great ‘radiant’ beauty. They are among the most meaningful and lyrical statements of our time’
(J. Gordon, Richard Pousette-Dart, Montpelier, Vermont 1963, p. 16).

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