Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992)

Mosaic Circle

Details

Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992)
Mosaic Circle
signed twice and dated 'R. Pousette-Dart 83-85 Richard Pousette-Dart' (on the reverse); signed again, signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 'RPD Richard Pousette-Dart MOSAIC CIRCLE 1983-85' (on the stretcher)
acrylic on canvas
72 x 72 in. (182.9 x 182.9 cm.)
Painted in 1983-1985.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

S. Hunter and J. Kuebler, eds., Richard Pousette-Dart: The New York School and Beyond, New York, 2005, p. 187, pl. 117 (illustrated).

Exhibited

West Nyack, Rockland Center for the Arts, The Rockland Connection, November-December 1990.
Washington, D.C., Le Marié-Tranier Gallery, Richard Pousette-Dart, February-March 1992.
Boca Raton, Gallery Camino Real, Richard Pousette-Dart, February-March 2006.

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Lot Essay

“these paintings deal with a
contemplative penetrating form of
dynamic stillness – a stopping of time
a silence – a meditation – a regeneration
…the grain &
points of form – structure & the prismatic
magic of light. The molecular structure
& energy of life itself.”
(R. Pousett-Dart writings included in Richard Pousette-Dart, an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1974, in L. S. Sims, Richard Pousette-Dart Presences: The Imploding of Color, exh. cat., Knoedler & Company, New York, 2005)

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