Sentences with phrase «year painterly practice»

Cy Twombly's Untitled from 2005, the largest work from the acclaimed Bacchus series, which marked the culmination of the artist's 50 - year painterly practice, sold for $ 46,437,500 before two lots later, Sunset (1957) by the same artist achieved $ 24,000,000.

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Over a fifty - year career, Semmel has practiced a radically self - possessed painterly project concerned with charged eroticism and frank, corporeal self - portraiture.

This catalog, another first, documents the Nasher show, a 10 - year survey exploring the arc of her practice which has evolved from a more painterly style to decidedly emphatic approach, mixing figuration and abstraction with a riot of bold color, symbols, and meaning.

His painterly practice has always oscillated freely between figuration and abstraction, but in the past few years gained a specific focus on the relationship and dichotomies between Western and Asian approaches to landscape painting and nature.

Dunham has built his pictorial vocabulary over three decades of grappling with the past century's rich heritage of painterly possibilities (including abstraction, which he practiced exclusively for many years); today one can detect traces of Léger, Guston and the various twists and turns of New York painting in the 1980s, when he began making abstractions on wood veneer.

Thomas Soloman has brought together a group of works that exhibit a range of painterly practices and techniques spanning 40 years.

Two years ago she began a series of paintings that, while using all the painterly techniques of her established practice, borrowed daringly from the methods of cartography.

Painted in 1952, Mark Rothko's superb oil on canvas Untitled is a vibrant and deeply moving masterpiece, created in the first years of his maturity when Rothko discovered the new vision and new structural language that defined his painterly practice for the rest of his life.