Contemporary Art Online | New York
Contemporary Art Online | New York
GEORGE RICKEY | ONE UP ONE DOWN OBLIQUE CLOSED
Lot Closed
March 10, 04:35 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
GEORGE RICKEY
1907 - 2002
ONE UP ONE DOWN OBLIQUE CLOSED
incised with the artist's signature, date 1975 and number 4/5 on the base
stainless steel
24 by 17¾ by 3 in. (61 by 45.1 by 7.6 cm.)
Executed in 1975, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5.
Staempfli Gallery, New York
Private Collection
Christie's, New York, 9 November 1983, Lot 170
Private Collection
Sotheby's, New York, 5 November 1985, Lot 231
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
"Time is an undeniable component in all kinectic art: motion can occur only during a span of time. Rickey's works can gently heighten viewer's awareness of time actually passing and, in a marvelously indirect way, persuade them to recognize the beauty of pure abstraction... We observe the seemingly random movements and note that fluctuating air currents cause different actions. Some appear to defy logic and the laws of physics, even as they operate within those laws... With patience we discern some patterns, but also realize that they are not consistently predictable; patterns involve in an open-ended process."
(Valerie Fletcher "George Rickey, Poetry in Motion," George Rickey, Kinectic Sculpture: A Retrospective, p. 26)