Thomas Downing
Valentine , 1961 (Dated)
Lot #85 |
2024-07-09 |
Sotheby's, New York
Contemporary Discoveries
Category:
Painting
Estimate:
USD 20,000 - 30,000 (currency of sale)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: N11426
Auction name: Contemporary Discoveries
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2024-07-09
End date: 2024-07-16
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: 20th Century American Art
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 59 by 59 in.
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
149.9
Width In Centimeters:
149.9
Height In Inches:
59
Width In Inches:
59
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Edition: AP
Edition notes: Artist's proof.
Year notes: Dated in 1961.
Provenance
Estate of Alice Denney, Washington D.C.
Literature
Claudine Humblet, The New American Abstraction, 1950–1970 , vol. 2, Milan 2007, p. 867, illustrated Catalogue note "(Tom) was one of the first persons that...let me know that the Washington Color School painting wasn't about what was being written by Greenberg...Tom would interestingly tell you that it was only about seeing; and then later he would tell you that it was only about color; or that it was only about the music of color; or the way you could structure color. And then later he would say that it was like pop art." -Sam Gilliam, quoted in Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, (and traveling), Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective , 2005, p. 15
Catalog summary
Property from the Collection of Alice Denney Thomas Downing 1928 - 1985 Valentine signed and dated 1961 (on the overlap) acrylic on canvas 59 by 59 in. 149.9 by 149.9 cm. Executed in 1961. Provenance Estate of Alice Denney, Washington D.C. Literature Claudine Humblet, The New American Abstraction, 1950–1970 , vol. 2, Milan 2007, p. 867, illustrated Catalogue note "(Tom) was one of the first persons that...let me know that the Washington Color School painting wasn't about what was being written by Greenberg...Tom would interestingly tell you that it was only about seeing; and then later he would tell you that it was only about color; or that it was only about the music of color; or the way you could structure color. And then later he would say that it was like pop art." -Sam Gilliam, quoted in Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, (and traveling), Sam Gilliam: A Retrospective , 2005, p. 15