To _________ (Shelley)

Artists

Description

Painting is oil on primed canvas, with unpainted edges and a thinly painted black surface, over which the artist has applied a slightly thicker layer of paint with a palette knife. The composition comprises a square of deep purple surrounded by various oblong/rectangular/squarish shapes in a subtly calibrated range of charcoal/brown blacks that read as a frame for this interior square.

Dimensions

sight: 142.2 x 137.2 cm (56 x 54 in.)

Provenance

[Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, New York], sold; to Henry B. Cortesi, New York, New York, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 2002.