Mathías Goeritz (1915-1990)

Acquired directly from the artist
Private Collection, Seattle

The original gilding has been cleaned and touched up with multiple coats of sealer. Minor scrapes to the support are visible on the back of the wooden frame. As this is a pure surface, gloves should be worn at all times when handled. Otherwise in very good condition.
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"I prefer the term 'abstract art', as a generalizing category...yet no more or less unfit, false and inaccurate, than the term 'Gothic'. I certainly think that the historian or critic talking about a painting or sculpture seeks exact names to point out what to say, and in this case, it seems right to me that he continues using terms such as: 'non-figurative', 'semi-figurative', 'non-objective', 'neoplastic', 'concrete', 'absolute', 'non-representative', etc. With time, everything is understood. 

Being more of a painter than a critic however, I have to confess, personally, that I care more about the feeling that I sense from a work of art (as a plastic expression produced by another human being) than its intellectual analysis. In other words, I care about the art and less about adjectives. Precisely because of that, I am not authorized to say anything definitive about adjectives.

I believe in the deep sense and in the immense future of the new art, without being capable of expressing with exact words the reasons why."

Mexico, November 1951
Mathias Goeritz