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131
USA, c. 1965
oil on panel 30 h × 35¾ w in (76 × 91 cm)
oil on panel 30 h × 35¾ w in (76 × 91 cm)
estimate: $1,000–1,500
result: $2,375
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Signed to verso 'Don Smith'.
provenance: Allan Stone Gallery, New York
The Visionary Eye of Allan Stone
Founded in 1960 by art dealer Allan Stone (1932–2006), the New York gallery known today as Allan Stone Projects has been admired for over half a century. Celebrated for its eclectic approach and early advocacy of pivotal artists of the 20th century, Allan Stone Gallery was a leading authority on Abstract Expressionism, the New York dealer for Wayne Thiebaud for over forty years, and showed the works of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Joseph Cornell, John Graham and John Chamberlain. Stone also promoted the work of a younger generation of artists that were in conversation with other artists in his collection, working in the mediums of assemblage, collage and new modes of abstraction. In addition to modern masterworks and contemporary art, Allan Stone also collected and exhibited international folk art, Americana and important decorative arts and industrial design.
An artist? Well, perhaps. But actually I consider myself a painter first—one who is trying to use the rules unique to painting—ones we’ve had for the past three hundred years or so. These rules produce the form and so far have not been superseded. And it’s here—with the prevalent notion that the basis has changed—that we can so easily allow delusion to slip in. The struggle with this specific delusion is the discipline of painting.
Don Smith