Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)
The Property of a Nobleman
Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)

Behalf

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Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)
Behalf
signed, titled and dated "Kenneth Noland BEHALF 1976" (on the stretcher)
acrylic on canvas
dimensions variable: 75 x 45 1/8 in. (190.5 x 114.6 cm.) or 87 ¼ x 29 3/4 in. (221.6 x 75.5 cm.)
Painted in 1976.
Provenance
Leo Castelli, New York
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Private collection
By descent from the above to the present owner

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Lot Essay

'It’s been on my mind – what would something be like if it were unbalanced? ‘It’s been a vexing question for a long time. But it took the experience of working with radical kinds of symmetry, not just a rectangle, but a diamond shape, as well as extreme extensions of shapes, before I finally came to the idea of everything being unbalanced, nothing vertical, nothing horizontal, nothing parallel. I came to the fact that unbalancing has its own order. In a peculiar way, it can still end up feeling symmetrical. I don’t know but what the very nature of our response to art is experienced symmetrically'
(K. Noland, quoted in D. Waldman, ‘Color, Format and Abstract Art’, in Art in America, vol. 65, no. 3, May–June 1977, pp. 99–105).

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