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JACK WHITTEN (1939 - ) Study II, Metal Tool Series.
Dry pigment and pastel on laid paper, 1974. 400x521 mm; 15 3/4x20 1/2 inches. Signed and dated in pencil, lower right recto. Signed and inscribed in ink and titled in pencil on the frame verso.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, private collection.
In the early 1970s, Jack Whitten experimented with various dry pigments on paper, including a series with toner during his 1974 artist residency at the Xerox Corporation. Two similar toner works, Broken Spaces #1 and Broken Spaces #5, both 1974, are now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. According to Alexander Gray Associates, Whitten's groundbreaking painting and drawing from this period "emphasize[s] Whitten's interest in horizontal gesture, underlying surfaces, and materiality."
