Feb 14, 2013 - Sale 2303

Sale 2303 - Lot 89

Price Realized: $ 10,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 25,000
ALVIN D. LOVING, JR. (1935 - 2005)
Untitled (Three Cube Composition).

Acrylic on three joined hexagonal canvases, circa 1969-70. 1575x1575 mm; 62x62 inches.

Provenance: acquired directly from the artist; private California collection.

In response to his 1969 Whitney Museum of American Art show, Al Loving wrote in a 2001 essay for a Gottlieb Fellowship: "My geometric abstractions of this time represented a post graduate end to my education in western culture and art history. I was trying to evoke three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface. The Whitney show would force me to scramble to find my own non-ecclectic position in art."