Lot 271
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Jules Olitski (1922-2007)
The Collection of Jenny and Clement Greenberg
Jules Olitski (1922-2007)

Doukhobor Twist

Details
Jules Olitski (1922-2007)
Doukhobor Twist
signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'For Clem Jules Olitski 1965 Doukhobor Twist' (on the reverse); titled again and dated again '1965 "DOUKHOBOR TWIST"' (on the stretcher)
acrylic on canvas
91 x 52 in. (231.1 x 132.1 cm.)
Painted in 1965.
Provenance
Jenny and Clement Greenberg, New York, acquired directly from the artist
By descent from the above to the present owner
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art; Pasadena Art Museum and San Francisco Museum of Art, Jules Olitski: Paintings, 1963-1967, April-November 1967, p. 24, no. 12 (Washington, D.C. only).

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Lot Essay

“In the end, Olitski… has accomplished what the Abstract Expressionist pioneers grasped only tenuously: the creation of an abstract picture as an autonomous, spiritual object made solely from painting’s own irreducible materials of paint and canvas and from their concomitant expressive features of scale, surface, and color.” (K. Moffett, Jules Olitski, New York, 1981, p. 64)

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