John McCracken

Private Collection (acquired directly from the artist circa 1975)
Private Collection, New York

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. The surface is clean. Under extremely close inspection, there are a few nearly invisible and pinpoint losses on the left lateral flat edge and an extremely fine surface crack that spans 1-inch of the upper right corner and lateral edge. Also under extremely close inspection, a fine 1.5-inch vertical abrasion is visible at the lower right lateral flat edge. Under raking light, very close inspection, some very fine and unobtrusive surface scratches are visible.
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"I make real, physical forms, but they're made out of color, which as a quality is, at the outset, abstract. I try to use color as if it were a material; I make a sculpture out of, say, 'red' or 'blue.' So my interest in having a piece look not only conventionally physical, but also in the next moment having it look like it could be something imagined, almost a hallucination, is well served by using color."

John McCracken