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DAVID HAMMONS (1943 - )
Untitled
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Enamel on masonite board, circa 1972. 610x305 mm; 24x12 inches.
Signed in ink, lower right.
Provenance: private collection, North Carolina.
A very good example of an early painting by this important contemporary
artist, David Hammons’s abstraction in enamel shows a seldom-seen side
of his early work. Hammons created these beautiful and organic
compositions in swirling mixtures of enamel painting. Within the
framework of minimal abstraction, they display his early experimental use
of material.These paintings date from the years of his studies at the Otis
Art Institute in Los Angeles (1968 - 1972) before he began his more
celebrated body art prints.
A very similar orange enamel painting by David Hammons sold at
Heritage Auctions on May 16, 2014; both paintings have fragments of
San Francisco Chronicle
newspaper from 1972 adhered to the masonite on
the verso.
[15,000/25,000]