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Michael Gross
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Michael Gross
- Faucet and Vent on a Ship's Deck
- signed in Hebrew (lower left); signed Michael Gross and dated 1965-73 (on the reverse)
- oil on canvas
- 23 3/4 by 35 1/2 in.
- 60 by 90 cm.
- Painted in 1965 and again in 1973.
Provenance
Joseph Hackmey, Tel Aviv
Literature
Mordechai Omer, Michael Gross, Tel Aviv, 1993, p. 141, no. 162, illustrated in color
Condition
There are several areas of craquelure throughout the work, including one area of circular craquelure in the yellow paint in the lower right corner. There is a small spot of paint loss in the upper right corner and another in the center left edge. There is a 2 cm surface stain on the left side of the bottom edge. There is a 2 cm rectangular area of loss in the upper edge of the yellow paint. Several areas of the yellow paint have been retouched.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
Open spaces suffused with light began appearing in Michael Gross’s paintings after the artist’s return from Paris in 1954. At this time, Gross also began using architectural structures while cutting off their lines to arrest movement and control the space in the painting and to create an inner tension between the structures and the space, and between the border of the painting’s format and what lies beyond. The architectural forms become broad, abstract areas bound to the edge of the canvas. In his monograph on the artist, Morderchai Omer discusses the painting offered here in this important context: “A similar sense of streaming and cut-off, around an architectural structure in an open space, is also evoked by the painting Faucet and Hose on a Ship’s Deck, (1965, 1973) [see no. 162]. ‘A piece of a flexible black hose, in the material brightness of a ship’s deck – the mobile character of this emphasis, in its posture, largely determines the emotion dominant in this picture’. (Mordechai Omer and Mordechai Omer quoting Michael Gross from conversations with the artist during the years 1980-1982, Michael Gross, Tel Aviv, 1993, p. 46).