Live Auction 2481Post-War and Contemporary Art Session II
Ernest Briggs (1923-1984)
Lot 621

Ernest Briggs (1923-1984)

Untitled

Closed9 November 2011

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USD 52,500

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Ernest Briggs (1923-1984)
Untitled
oil on canvas
35¼ x 45 in. (89.5 x 114.3 cm.)
Painted in 1955.

Stable Gallery, New York
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"For me the challenge of painting lies implicit within the act--to penetrate inherited conceptual deposits and attempt the possible impingement of spirit, the personal image, remains the enduring command of conscience."

(Ernest Briggs quoted in Twelve Americans, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1956)