Dimensions: 153 x 121 cm
signed, dated and described on the reverse: 'RICHARD ANUSZKIEWICZ | 1980 | 662'
Origin:
private collection (purchased directly from the artist)
Sotheby's, New York, May 2016
institutional collection, Poland
Literature
David Madden and Nicholas Spike, Anuskiewicz: Paintings and Sculptures 1945-2001, Florence 2011, cat. no. 1980.2, p. 190.
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.
