Lot 10
  • 10

Gil Joseph Wolman

Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
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Description

  • Gil Joseph Wolman
  • OD4 (Amérique la Rechute)
  • signed and titled  on the overlap
  • collage of newspaper and varnish on canvas
  • 55 by 38 cm.
  • Executed in 1967.

Provenance

Galerie Spiess, Paris

Exhibited

Paris, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Lumière et mouvement, June 1967
Paris, Galerie Spiess, Ecriture de la Peinture, 1983

 

 

Condition

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is less pale in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Three minor hairline cracks are in the upper varnish layer situated at the middle of the left edge.
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Catalogue Note

"Wolman had an important role in the organisation of the Lettriste Left-wing in 1952, then in the foundation of the LI. Author of "megapneumic"poems, a theory of "cinematochronicity"and a film, he was Lettriste delegate at the congress of Alba in September 1956".
(quoted in: Hussey, The Game of War, 2001, p. 111).