During the early 1950s, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) created one of the most anomalous bodies of work of his career: graphite drawings on undercoats of blue or ocher painted over a titanium white ground. For an artist known for his love of color and impasto, these predominantly white paintings constituted quite a departure. Twenty-five works were shown at Betty Parsons Gallery in 1955, in an exhibition titled Predominantly White; the artist returned to mine this vein in later paintings in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
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ISBN
9780943044361
Published
2010-10-14
Publisher
Phillips Collection; Phillips Collection
Height
185 mm
Width
191 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
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Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
64

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