Lot 23
Richard Pousette-Dart(American, 1916-1992)Garden
1973-1975
1973-1975
18 November 2020, 13:00 EST
New YorkUS$25,000 - US$35,000
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Richard Pousette-Dart (American, 1916-1992)
Garden
1973-1975
signed, titled and dated 73-75 on the reverse
oil and watercolor on card
11 1/4 by 11 in.
28.5 by 28 cm.
1973-1975
signed, titled and dated 73-75 on the reverse
oil and watercolor on card
11 1/4 by 11 in.
28.5 by 28 cm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Obelisk Gallery, Boston
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1976
A member of the New York School's first generation of Abstract Expressionists alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning, Pousette-Dart established his own meditative yet expressive aesthetic, a style he explored throughout his extensive career. The artist showed at the legendary Betty Parsons Gallery from 1948 until it closed in 1983 and was a great influence on the gallery's younger generation, including Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly and Jack Youngerman. The artist's Symphony No. 1, The Transcendental (1942), in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is understood to be the first mural-sized easel painting by the New York School, and was a major influence on Pollock's Mural (1943), as well as Arshile Gorky's The Liver is the Cock's Comb (1944). Other examples by the artist can be found in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
