The Inner Space
53.3 cms x 40.6 cms (21 ins x 16 ins)
Signed and dated 1970 on the reverse; inventory number 312
made in 1970
Lot offered for sale by Cowley Abbott, Toronto at the auction event "September Auction of Canadian and International Artwork (Online Auction)" held on Wed, Sep 12, 2018.
Lot 31240
Lot 31240
Realised: CAD $16,520
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
The J L Hudson Gallery, Detroit
Private Collection, Ontario
Literature:
Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, December 15, 2000, p. E41.
Seitz, William C. The Responsive Eye. Catalogue of an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York [in collaboration with the City Art Museum of St. Louis, the Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum, the Pasadena Art Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art]. Museum of Modern Art: New York, 1965.
Notes:
Richard Anuszkiewicz is considered a founder and leading proponent of the Optical art movement in America. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1930, he began his artistic training at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he excelled in still life and landscape painting from 1948 to 1953. After winning a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, Anuszkiewicz pursued a Master of Fine Art degree at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, studying under the renowned artist and educator Josef Albers from 1953 to 1955. Relocating his practice to New York in 1957, Anuszkiewicz quickly achieved critical success, exhibiting in various solo and group shows throughout the city. Following a one-man exhibition at The Contemporaries in New York City in 1960, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired two of his paintings. By the mid-1960s, Anuszkiewicz's inclusion in the Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition (1963) and the publication of his painting Mercurian in the Fire on the cover of LIFE International (December 28, 1964) had cemented his status as an Op art icon. By 1965, Anuszkiewicz had firmly established himself as a preeminent contemporary artist with his participation in "The Responsive Eye", an historic exhibition of Op art, Geometric abstraction, and Hard-edge painting at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition featured works by 96 artists, including Victor Vasarely of France and English painter Bridget Riley, Anuskiewicz's primary international counterparts in the movement.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
The J L Hudson Gallery, Detroit
Private Collection, Ontario
Literature:
Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, December 15, 2000, p. E41.
Seitz, William C. The Responsive Eye. Catalogue of an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York [in collaboration with the City Art Museum of St. Louis, the Contemporary Art Council of the Seattle Art Museum, the Pasadena Art Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art]. Museum of Modern Art: New York, 1965.
Notes:
Richard Anuszkiewicz is considered a founder and leading proponent of the Optical art movement in America. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, in 1930, he began his artistic training at the Cleveland Institute of Art, where he excelled in still life and landscape painting from 1948 to 1953. After winning a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, Anuszkiewicz pursued a Master of Fine Art degree at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, studying under the renowned artist and educator Josef Albers from 1953 to 1955. Relocating his practice to New York in 1957, Anuszkiewicz quickly achieved critical success, exhibiting in various solo and group shows throughout the city. Following a one-man exhibition at The Contemporaries in New York City in 1960, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired two of his paintings. By the mid-1960s, Anuszkiewicz's inclusion in the Whitney Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition (1963) and the publication of his painting Mercurian in the Fire on the cover of LIFE International (December 28, 1964) had cemented his status as an Op art icon. By 1965, Anuszkiewicz had firmly established himself as a preeminent contemporary artist with his participation in "The Responsive Eye", an historic exhibition of Op art, Geometric abstraction, and Hard-edge painting at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition featured works by 96 artists, including Victor Vasarely of France and English painter Bridget Riley, Anuskiewicz's primary international counterparts in the movement.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Cowley Abbott auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Cowley Abbott auction house for permission to use.