Joan Brown (1938 - 1990) was a prodigy in the «Bay Area Figurative style,» and «
Portrait of a Chair» (1958), which serves as a kind of frontispiece to this exhibition, is a
stunning example of someone mastering scale, composition,
color and hell - for - leather brushwork at the tender age of 19.
♦ David Zwirner: Richard Serra's «Large Symmetry # 5,» for $ 575,0000, and Luc Tuyman's head shot
portrait «DA» from 2014 for $ 750,000; Gerhard Richter's «Farbtafel (
Color Chart)» from 1966, in the region of the $ 2 million asking price; Though no price was released by the gallery, in deference to the work's new owner, a
stunning Ad Reinhardt canvas, «Blue Painting» from 1951 - 53, measuring 80 by 59 7/8 inches, sold to a European collection.