Dimensions: 122 x 153 cm
signed and dated on the reverse: 'RICHARD ANUSZKIEWICZ | 1975'
on the reverse a sticker from D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc.
Origin:
private collection, USA
Wigmore Fine Arts, New York
private collection, Poland
Exhibited
"Global Exchange. Geometric Abstraction since 1950", Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 8.11.2014-4.01.2015
Literature
David Madden, Nicholas Spike, Anuszkiewicz: Paintings and Sculpture 1945-2001, Catalogue Raisonne, Florence 2010, item 1975.12
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.
