REEL ORE

acrylic on canvas

78.5 x 16.5 in. (199.4 x 41.9 cm)

Price Realized:

$ 27000 CAD.

INCLUDES BUYER’S PREMIUM

Notes:

signed, titled and dated verso

Provenance: Virginia Christopher Galleries, Calgary AB (stamp verso); Corporate collection, Calgary AB

Larry Poons [b. 1937] is a respected American abstractionist whose artistic career has spanned over six decades. Poons began to painting in the late 1950s, and his work quickly rose to prominence in the 1960s in New York City, where he focused on Op-Art style abstraction. Represented early on by the Green Gallery in New York City, In 1965, he was included in MoMA’s exhibition, “The Responsive Eye”. He was subsequently the youngest artist to be included in their 1969 exhibition “New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940-1970”. In the later 1960s, with an interest in continuous development, he turned to looser abstraction. The 1970s saw Poons splashing, dripping and pouring paint directly onto his canvases. He began working directly on massive-scale canvas on the floor, immersing himself in the creation of the work, and subsequently cutting individual compositions from the roll. Today, Poons maintains an active practice and is internationally collected.