Carlos Cruz-Diez - Latin America New York Tuesday, November 22, 2016 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner


    We are grateful to the Cruz-Diez Art Foundation for their kind assistance in cataloguing this work.

  • Artist Biography

    Carlos Cruz-Diez

    Venezuelan • 1923 - 2019

    Carlos Cruz-Diez moved from his native Caracas to Paris in 1960. He is a major protagonist in the field of kinetic and Op Art, a movement based on "an awareness of the instability of reality."
            Inspired by such artists as Georges Seurat and Josef Albers, his work focuses on the kinetic energy of color and its existence as an autonomous and evolving reality, independent from form or structure. Much of his work, in particular his Physichromie series, is created by plotting lines of contrasting color alongside each other, creating an illusion of movement as the viewer's position relative to the artwork shifts.

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Physichromie No. 606

signed, titled and dated "Physichromie No. 606 - Cruz-Diez - Paris, Juin 1972"
acrylic and plastic mounted on wood with aluminum frame
27 7/8 x 28 1/4 in. (70.8 x 71.8 cm)
Executed in 1972.

Estimate
$180,000 - 250,000 

Contact Specialist
Kaeli Deane
Head of Sale, Latin American Art
New York
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Latin America

New York Auction 22 November 2016