1968 Contemporary Geometric Pop Abstraction Aluminum Wall Sculpture Signed Richard Smith

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About the artwork: This artwork is a three-dimensional aluminum sculpture that is meant to hang on a wall. It features … Read more About the artwork: This artwork is a three-dimensional aluminum sculpture that is meant to hang on a wall. It features two triangles fashioned from a single sheet of brushed silver metal. The back triangle is a solid shape while the front triangle is creased and partially cut into four strips that fold both inwards and outwards into space, like cut and folded paper.

Elegant in its simplicity, slightly menacing in its sharp beauty, this wall sculpture is a highly refined example of Pop Abstraction Art. Although Pop Art is often presented as a reaction against Abstract Expressionism, and in its American wave often features iconic or comic book-type images, British abstract painters such as Richard Smith participated in a more formal style known as Pop Abstraction: in the mid-1960s became an international trend.

The artwork is signed, dated, and numbered 10 out of a limited edition of 30. The sculpture has an invisible hanging ledge ready to mount on a wall.

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Signed and dated R. Smith 68

About the Artist: Richard Smith (1931-2016) was an English artist active in England and New York City as part of the British and American Pop Art movement. He produced work in a range of styles from Abstract to Pop and Color-field painting, exploring the idea of three-dimensional paintings, prints and wall sculptures. Smith trained at the Royal Academy in London and maintained an important place in the British art scene. His three-dimensional paintings are similar to the concepts and work of his friend Frank Stella, an American. Smith showed in the Venice Biennale in 1966, represented Britain at the 1970 Venice Biennale, and in 1975 had a retrospective at the Tate Museum in London.

Provenance:
Private collection – New York
Private collection – Paris
Feigen Gallery – New York

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