Richard Phillips

Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1999

This work is in very good overall condition. There are a few light scattered abrasions, the most evident is a 2 ½ hairline abrasion located 19 inches from the right edge and 3 ½ inches from the top edge. This work has not been examined under UV light. Unframed.
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"Unbelievably, there is a possibility of an art that, after the nineties, will not preach or illustrate, that will be literally destructive of the coherence and order that define the levelled-out stasis of modern, socially relativistic culture. The hope is to set up favourable conditions in relationship to these topics, whereby patterns of thought may be ignited through individual, direct, sensual experience of the living and the beauty in painting as Art." - Richard Phillips (Yilmaz Dziewior, ed., Richard Phillips, Hamburg, 2002)