George Rickey

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 GBP

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Description

George Rickey
Oblique Down II
incised with the artist's signature, dated 1971 and stamped 2/8
stainless steel
min: 670.5 by 563.9cm.; 264 by 222in. max: 944.9 by 1097.2cm.; 372 by 432in.
blades: 457.2cm.; 180in.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1971

Catalogue Note

“I began to realize that if one was to use the movement as a kind of essential expression, one probably had to try it with extremely simple forms. And this led me gradually to pare the forms down until I arrived simply at lines. These pieces with long blades are really just an exploitation of the simplest means I could find at the time for showing a kind of ordered and related set of movements.”
- George Rickey