HOWARD MEHRING | TWO AND ONE

AM Sachs Gallery, New York

Osuna Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Middendorf/Lane Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Peyton/Wright, Santa Fe

Gary Snyder ProjectSpace, New York

Bonham's, Los Angeles, The Modern House, 1 November 2016, Lot 1111

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

“The color is applied in small staccato touches, equally dense and aerated throughout, with the artist probably having held several brushes in the hand at the same time while rapidly alternating dottings. The paint is applied thinly and onto a surface grown damp with “turp” during the execution, an impression strengthened by the bleeds and blooms surrounding each touch, unifying the surface and eradicating the constant shift between field/figure inherent in such a system of stroking. In most of the works the color tends to monochromism or tonalism—despite the myriad touches—and in others a handsome reticent color plays between the general drift of the hue and a wrier internal note.”

(Robert Pincus-Witten, “Howard Mehring: Sachs Gallery”, Artforum, Summer 1970, Vol. 8, No.10, p. 82)