Lot 223
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Richard Hamilton (1922-2011)
Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's… Read more PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE BENN AND CONSTANCE LEVY
Richard Hamilton (1922-2011)

Microcosmos 3

Details
Richard Hamilton (1922-2011)
Microcosmos 3
signed, inscribed and dated 'HAMILTON/Microcosmos 3/June 50' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm.)
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by Benn and Constance Levy, and by descent.
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

'Each mark made had to be meaningful at any level ... I took a blank canvas and ... put one mark on it ... and then I added another mark and found some justification for the relationship ... With each mark I had to be able to say there was a reason ... through some kind of systematic relationship over the picture surface' (Richard Hamilton commenting on the Microcosmos paintings in an interview with Andrew Forge for the BBC, broadcast in New Comment, November 1964).

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