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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 800
NORMAN DOLPH Clement Greenberg, 1951.
Ink and acrylic on various pieces of canvas, rivets and string, 1993. 160x1070 mm; 6 1/4x42 1/8 inches, the largest component, overall. With the artist's name and date on one of the canvas components.
Provenance: Collection of the artist, New York and Connecticut; thence by descent to the current owner.
Dolph divided and stippled a reference to the artist Arshile Gorky, from Greenberg's (1909-1994) essay "American-Type" Painting, "Gorky was already trying his hand at the big picture in the early 1940s, being the first in this direction as in others. The increasing shallowness of his illusion of depth was compelling the ambitious painter to try to find room on the literal surface of his canvas for an equivalent of the pictorial transactions he used to work out in the imagined three-dimensional space behind it." "American-Type" Painting was first published in Partisan Review in 1955 to counter Greenberg's intellectual counterpart, Harold Rosenberg's Existentialist approach to critiquing 1950s contemporary artworks. Rather than comment on subject matter or ideology the work depicts, or an outside reference, Greenberg was a staunch formalist and judged works by formal, physical characteristics.
