On Kawara - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale London Friday, October 13, 2023 | Phillips
  • “Though Kawara may have tried to erase his hand by making the Date Paintings so exact, I do think the concept of the artist’s hand was important to him—maybe not in the traditional way we think about it in terms of gesture and brushstrokes, but he did do everything by hand. He lettered his paintings by hand, he stamped his postcards by hand; even after the advent of computers, he still used typewriters. The making of the object and the material object, I believe, were important to him, so if not the artist’s hand, per se, perhaps it was about the artist’s participation—or presence—for Kawara.”
    —Anne Wheeler

    On Kawara: Date Paintings, 2015

     
    • Provenance

      Micheline Szwajcer Gallery, Antwerp
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

18

OCT.20,1992

signed 'On Kawara' on the reverse
Liquitex on canvas and handmade cardboard box with newspaper clipping from The New York Times
canvas 25.8 x 33.3 cm (10 1/8 x 13 1/8 in.)
box 27.3 x 34.3 x 5 cm (10 3/4 x 13 1/2 x 1 7/8 in.)

Executed in 1992.

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Estimate
£250,000 - 350,000 

Sold for £342,900

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale

London Auction 13 October 2023