Entrance; Untitled [Two Works]

Friedel Dzubas divided Entrance, originally conceived as a single unified composition in 1965, into two discrete works, each assigned its own title and date. The left panel retained the title Entrance and the 1965 date, while the right panel was rechristened Untitled and was backdated to 1963. Aesthetically, the split testifies to the compositional strength of each section of the canvas, both capable of holding their own as independent works. From a chronological standpoint, it illuminates Dzubas’s self-reflexive view of his practice: by backdating Untitled to 1963, he cast the right panel as a kind of prologue, positioning it to foreshadow the approaches to color and form that would define his later work. Reunited here as a single lot, it represents a critical moment to encounter the work as Dzubas originally envisioned, while the distance between the two canvases marks the strategic lacunae the artist created.