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Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)
Lot 75

Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)

Flares: Last Grunion

Closed30 September 2015

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Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)
Flares: Last Grunion
signed, titled and dated 'FLARES: "LAST GRUNIONS" Kenneth Noland © 1990' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas mounted on wood and Plexiglas construction
84 x 38 1/4 in. (213.3 x 97.1 cm.)
Executed in 1990.

Private collection, New York, acquired directly from the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"Noland’s mature works owe much to Mondrian in their classic purity, chromatic breakdown of space and the optical effects of forms which seem to advance and retreat while simultaneously occupying a single plane" (D. Waldman, Kenneth Noland: A Retrospective, New York, 1977, p. 11)