Live Auction 13892Post-War & Contemporary Art
Sylvia Plimack Mangold (B. 1938)
Lot 154 Drawings from the Collection of Irving Stenn

Sylvia Plimack Mangold (B. 1938)

22 1/2 inches of Floorboard

Closed28 September 2017

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Sylvia Plimack Mangold (B. 1938)
22 1/2 inches of Floorboard
titled '"22 1/2 Inches of Floorboard"' (lower center); signed and dated 'Sylvia Mangold 8/74' (lower right)
acrylic, ink and graphite on paper
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm.)
Executed in 1974.

Dr. Milton Brutten and Dr. Helen Herrick, Philadelphia
Their sale; Rago Arts and Auction Center, Lambertville, 24 April 2004, lot 78
Alexander and Bonin, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

As she observed the effect of light on both floor and wall, the artist began to acknowledge her tools affixed to the walls. Essential to creating her illusions, these metal and wooden rulers and remnants of used masking tape soon became elements within her compositions. The accurate depiction of her instruments provided a means to reveal different levels of reality in painting, an idea that was of great interest to her as she further considered her medium. At first, the devices that were integral to her daily efforts were incorporated as still-life elements in a traditional sense… Yet in the artist’s hands, it also reveals that even her still life compositions transcend simple description. (C. Brutvan, The Paintings of Sylvia Plimack Mangold, New York, 1994, p. 26).