Lot Essay
“It is as if in reading the history of post-war art, Quaytman had decided to skip the section on AbEx and its discontents, instead going directly from the self-effacing procedures of Minimalism and the reception of the historical avant-gardes to the rise of the photographic sign—and to the digital one.” (P. Galvez, ARTFORUM, September 2011, vol. 50, no. 1, p. 305)