Live Auction 20093Post-War to Present
KENNETH NOLAND (1924-2010)
Lot 66 Property from a Palm Beach Estate

KENNETH NOLAND (1924-2010)

Solar Bound

Closed1 October 2021

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USD 600,000

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KENNETH NOLAND (1924-2010)
Solar Bound
signed, titled and dated '1968 SOLAR BOUND Kenneth Noland' (on the reverse)
acrylic on canvas
55 ¾ x 167 1/8 in. (141.6 x 424.5 cm.)
Painted in 1968.

Richard Rubin, New York
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 17 November 1977, lot 37
Private collection, Zürich
Irving Galleries, Palm Beach
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

“In his horizontal paintings, Noland's alignment of the stripe with the top and bottom edges of the canvas was simple yet revolutionary. ...Extension, proportion, measured interval, addition, echoes, and repetitions made these some of the most abstract of pictures. They could succeed at many scales, from slender extensions to massive complex giants. At best they're grand classic masterpieces, equivalent in their way, to the great Pollock drip paintings and the Louis veils.”
—T. Fenton, “Kenneth Noland,” in Kenneth Noland: An Important Exhibition of Paintings from 1958 through 1989, exh. cat., New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1989, p. 11.