Pat Steir

Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in January 2001

This work is in excellent condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling along the edges and at the corners of the work. The variations in surface texture are inherent to the artist's working method. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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“Steir's pictures create meditative spaces, but they also again and again probe the nature of painting itself, not only its technique, but also its stylistic directions, fashions, rules and categories. Parodying the old question posed by Barnett Newman: 'Who is afraid of red, yellow and blue?'...Steir responds to modernism from the perspective of the early 1990s, with intrepid cascades of color within a still-restrained, minimalist world.”
Doris von Drathen, “Within the Interspace Between Reality and Reality,” in Pat Steir: Paintings, Milan 2007, p. 22