Property from the Trust of Theodore W. Kheel Theodore W. Kheel was a highly respected New York City arbitrator, one who was publicly involved in the resolution of an impressive tens of thousands of labor disputes throughout his career. Through his work he met and developed a significant friendship with Robert Rauschenberg who introduced Mr. Kheel to the creative art world and to many of its movers and shakers. One such active participant was Donald Saff, the force behind Saff Tech Arts, one of the premier print studios of the later 20th century. Mr. Kheel was an enthusiastic supporter of Saff's mission and works by artists with whom Saff collaborated, including Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Nancy Graves and James Turrell, became central pieces in his personal collection. "Ever since he had seen Turrell's exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the fall of 1980, Saff knew he wanted to work with him on a suite of works involving painting and light [...] For years Turrell's principal preoccupation has been the Roden Crater project. Roden Crater is an extinct volcano northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. In an enormous effort, Turrell is moving tons of earth and slowly transforming the site into a "natural observatory" [...] Turrell had worked with wax on Mylar images, based on photographs of the Roden Crater site, in 1992. Knowing that Saff had worked with wax as recently as 1991 in the ROCI project, Turrell wanted to do wax works as well, based on the Roden Crater project. Wax would offer him an opportunity to explore translucency; he was attracted to the 'quality of wax and looking into wax.' In short, working with the material would allow him to plumb the beauties of light as it emanated from a flat space, creating in the process its own new space" (M. S. Kushner, Donald Saff: Art in Collaboration, New York, 2010, pp. 120-121).

James Turrell (b. 1943)

Cardinal Spaces on Fumerole, II

细节

James Turrell (b. 1943)
Cardinal Spaces on Fumerole, II
signed, titled and dated 'Cardinal Spaces on Fumerole, II 1993 James Turrell' (on the reverse)
encaustic wax with mica powder on wood panel with steel frame
53½ x 62½ in. (135.8 x 158.7 cm.)
Executed in 1993.

来源

Saff Tech Arts, Inc., Oxford, Maryland
Acquired from the above by the previous owner
By descent to the present owner

展览

New York, Knoedler & Co., James Turrell: Drawing from Space, November-December 1993.