Lot 112
112
RICHARD POUSETTE-DART (1916-1992)
Property from a Private American Collection 
RICHARD POUSETTE-DART (1916-1992)

Oriental Lights

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RICHARD POUSETTE-DART (1916-1992)
Oriental Lights
signed and titled 'Pousette-Dart Oriental Lights' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas with hand painted wood stripping
20½ x 24½ in. (52.1 x 62.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1945
Provenance
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York.
Willard Gallery, New York.
Compass Rose, Chicago.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989.
Exhibited
Andover, Phillips Academy, Addison Gallery, 1945.

Lot Essay

"Art for me is the heavens forever opening up, like asymmetrical, unpredictable, spontaneous Kaleidoscopes. It is magic, it is Joy, it is gardens of surprise and miracle. It is energy, impulse. It is question and answer. It is transcendental reason. It is total in spirit" (Richard Pousette-Dart as quoted in New York School The First Generation, Greenwich, 1970, p. 125).

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