1965/1 - ∞ Détail - Carte de voyage 1660846-1664205 20

Details

Roman Opalka (1931-2011)
1965/1 - 8 Détail - Carte de voyage 1660846-1664205 20
signed, titled, and numbered ‘OPALKA 1965/1-8 DETAIL -1660846-1664205 20’ (on the reverse)
ink on paper
13 x 9 ½in. (33 x 24cm.)

Provenance

Galerie Art in Progress, Munich.
Alfred Greisinger, Augsburg.
Anon. sale, Hauswedell & Nolte, 12 June 1998, lot 169.
Janice and Mickey Cartin, Hartford.
Yvon Lambert, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010.

Exhibited

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1998 - 2001 (on temporary loan).

Special Notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

‘The work of painting has become meditation. The intellectual and emotional sides of the work are absorbed through the medium of the spiritual’
(J. Deitch quoted in R. C. Morgan, ‘Roman Opalka’s Numerical Destiny’, Hyperallergic, 6 October 2014)

1965/1 - ∞ Détail - Carte de voyage 1660846-1664205 20

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