Dimensions: 86 x 61 cm
signed and dated on the reverse: 'RICHARD ANUSZKIEWICZ | 1961'
on the reverse: ownership sticker from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Walker and stickers from foreign auction houses
Origins
The Contemporaries Gallery, New York (purchase after the exhibition)
collection of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Walker, New York
collection of Marjory W. Walker, San Francisco
Butterfield & Butterfield Auction House (now Bonhams), San Francisco, 23.11.1997
private collection, Florida
private collection, United States (since 2001)
Christie's Auction House, 09.05.2012
private collection, Poland
Desa Unicum, 2017
private collection, Warsaw
Exhibited
The San Francisco Collector, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1965
Literature
David Madden, Nicholas Spike, Anuszkiewicz: Paintings & Sculptures 1945-2001, Florence, 2001, cat. item 1961.1., p. 129.
Biography
Anuszkiewicz studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1948 to 1953, then graduated from Yale University's Department of Art and Architecture with Josef Albers. Anuszkiewicz is considered one of the founders of Op art. At the beginning of his creative path, the artist realized a series of large painted wood objects of various shapes, directly entering the space. Thanks to few procedures, among others, by varying the thickness of vertical lines of one color, located on a contrasting, almost monochromatic background, Anuszkiewicz led to spatial radiation of color. These works, the source of which was, among others, "Temple of Golden Red," were constructed differently from his earlier abstract paintings without the use of optical illusion and its perception, typical of this direction. Anushkevich mostly uses basic geometric figures in her compositions, creating the illusion of movement of abstract images.
