Live Auction 12153Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
Jules Olitski (1922-2007)
Lot 271 The Collection of Jenny and Clement Greenberg

Jules Olitski (1922-2007)

Doukhobor Twist

Closed11 May 2016

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USD 100,000

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Jules Olitski (1922-2007)
Doukhobor Twist
signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'For Clem Jules Olitski 1965 Doukhobor Twist' (on the reverse); titled again and dated again '1965 "DOUKHOBOR TWIST"' (on the stretcher)
acrylic on canvas
91 x 52 in. (231.1 x 132.1 cm.)
Painted in 1965.

Jenny and Clement Greenberg, New York, acquired directly from the artist
By descent from the above to the present owner

Specialist note

“In the end, Olitski… has accomplished what the Abstract Expressionist pioneers grasped only tenuously: the creation of an abstract picture as an autonomous, spiritual object made solely from painting’s own irreducible materials of paint and canvas and from their concomitant expressive features of scale, surface, and color.” (K. Moffett, Jules Olitski, New York, 1981, p. 64)