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Lot 466 PROPERTY FROM THE DONALD AND SHIRLEY WEESE YOUNG COLLECTION WITH PROCEEDS INTENDED TO BENEFIT ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
Donald used to wear a white t-shirt stamped with the words "pure beauty" in black Helvetica letters. Our vocabulary was visual. Together we lived through our eyes, followed closely by our other senses.
...Whether examining the cut and touching the fabric of a possible new suit, wondering why his bread did not brown evenly like the perfect cookbook picture, reveling in the detail of a favorite painting at The Prado, skimming across metallic water while trimming a spinnaker so that its belly was filled with just the right amount of air, counting the distance between seeds as he dropped them into the warm earth in a straight row, underlining favorite thoughts in a challenging book, smiling under the sky as he flew down a mountain on skis, marveling at the dappled light under a double row of plane trees, arguing a conceptual idea into the wee hours, arranging and rearranging paintings on a wall or sculpture on the floor, inspecting lichen on his hands and knees among the heather-strewn moors, commenting on the shadow of a certain curve in a building or the intense color of a red geranium filled with sun...
Donald lived his life in pursuit of beauty. We all find it, and are moved by it, in different ways. I find it outside.
Shortly after Donald's death in April 2012, I was invited to join the Sierra Club Foundation Board where I found myself surrounded by active, engaged, and highly talented people who are working on many fronts toward the same goal: a comprehensive climate action plan that provides clean air and water for all. It does not get more basic than that.
Beauty seems to be misunderstood and undervalued in our present culture. Out of respect for beauty and most importantly out of love for Donald, I intend to donate a portion of the proceeds of this sale to a few carefully selected environmental organizations that are bringing all segments of society to the table in an attempt to solve the greatest crisis we have ever known.
As Wendell Berry writes, "What I stand for is what I stand on."
Shirley Weese Young
PROPERTY FROM THE DONALD AND SHIRLEY WEESE YOUNG COLLECTION WITH PROCEEDS INTENDED TO BENEFIT ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
Donald used to wear a white t-shirt stamped with the words "pure beauty" in black Helvetica letters. Our vocabulary was visual. Together we lived through our eyes, followed closely by our other senses.
...Whether examining the cut and touching the fabric of a possible new suit, wondering why his bread did not brown evenly like the perfect cookbook picture, reveling in the detail of a favorite painting at The Prado, skimming across metallic water while trimming a spinnaker so that its belly was filled with just the right amount of air, counting the distance between seeds as he dropped them into the warm earth in a straight row, underlining favorite thoughts in a challenging book, smiling under the sky as he flew down a mountain on skis, marveling at the dappled light under a double row of plane trees, arguing a conceptual idea into the wee hours, arranging and rearranging paintings on a wall or sculpture on the floor, inspecting lichen on his hands and knees among the heather-strewn moors, commenting on the shadow of a certain curve in a building or the intense color of a red geranium filled with sun...
Donald lived his life in pursuit of beauty. We all find it, and are moved by it, in different ways. I find it outside.
Shortly after Donald's death in April 2012, I was invited to join the Sierra Club Foundation Board where I found myself surrounded by active, engaged, and highly talented people who are working on many fronts toward the same goal: a comprehensive climate action plan that provides clean air and water for all. It does not get more basic than that.
Beauty seems to be misunderstood and undervalued in our present culture. Out of respect for beauty and most importantly out of love for Donald, I intend to donate a portion of the proceeds of this sale to a few carefully selected environmental organizations that are bringing all segments of society to the table in an attempt to solve the greatest crisis we have ever known.
As Wendell Berry writes, "What I stand for is what I stand on."
Shirley Weese Young
PROPERTY FROM THE DONALD AND SHIRLEY WEESE YOUNG COLLECTION WITH PROCEEDS INTENDED TO BENEFIT ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
Bruce Nauman (B.1941)
Double Poke in the Eye II
Closed13 November 2014
Price Realised
USD 461,000