Lot 236
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KENNETH NOLAND | Mystries: Jazz Goddess

Estimate
350,000 - 450,000 USD
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Description

  • Kenneth Noland
  • Mystries: Jazz Goddess
  • signed, titled and dated 2001-0024 on the reverse
  • acrylic and graphite on canvas
  • 60 by 60 in. 152.4 by 152.4 cm.

Provenance

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2001

Exhibited

London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Kenneth Noland: New Paintings, October - November 2001, p. 21, illustrated in color and illustrated in color on the cover 

Literature

Matthew Collings, "Half a Century in Circles," The Independent on Sunday, 7 October 2001, illustrated 

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is light evidence of wear and handling along the edges. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. There is a minor loss and light brown accretion 22-inches from the top and 27.5-inches from the right in the inner periwinkle band. The colors are bright and fresh. Under Ultraviolet light, there are no signs of restoration. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

“Noland’s color counts by its clarity and its energy; it is not there neutrally, to be carried by the design and drawing; it does the carrying itself.”
Clement Greenberg in Kenneth Moffet, Kenneth Noland, New York 1977, p. 51