Stanley Whitney
Untitled
Lot Closed
September 23, 06:02 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Stanley Whitney
b. 1946
Untitled
Executed in 2020.
Signed and dated recto
Monotype in watercolor on Lanaquarelle paper
47 3/4 by 67 3/4 in. (121.3 x 172.1 cm.)
Framed: 55 3/8 by 75 3/8 by 2 in. (140.7 x 191.5 x 5.1 cm.)
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Courtesy of the artist
Over his 50-year career, Stanley Whitney (US, b. 1946) has been steadfastly committed to abstraction and pursuing formal innovations in space, rhythm, and color. He arrived at his mature work in the early 2000s, when he began creating paintings marked by richly colored grids in vibrant hues. This unique monoprint retains the artist’s spontaneous and intuitive approach to art-making. Whitney first composed the image using watercolor on a wood surface. It was then run through a press and transferred onto paper. Layers of color, ranging from deep blues to vivid oranges and yellows, interact dynamically, suggesting a sense of movement and depth within the two-dimensional space.
Whitney lives and works in New York City and Parma, Italy. His works are held in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; and others. This fall, the Walker Art Center will present the artist’s first retrospective, Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon, organized by Buffalo AKG Art Museum.
