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William Brui

Unified Fields

Lot Closed

September 21, 02:29 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

William Brui

b.1946

Untitled


signed in Latin, inscribed Paris - New York and dated 1976 on the reverse

acrylic on canvas

Canvas: 146.5 by 134cm, 57¾ by 52¾in.

Painted in 1976, the present work dates from the artist's American period. Brui had arrived in New York City in 1971, where he became particularly interested in post-painterly abstraction. He created his own series of abstract works titled Colour Fields, and MoMA acquired several of his paintings. Today, works from Brui's American period rarely appear on the open market.


According to Brui the present work is one of three works of identical dimensions painted in different colours. The white version was bought by supermodel Olga Pantyushenkova.