Neil Welliver, the American artist who died last spring at the age of 75, was one hell of a painter, and if you want a surefire way of confirming it, go to the memorial exhibition mounted at Alexandre Gallery, take advantage of the bench in the main gallery, and take a good, hard gander at Read More
Neil Welliver, the American artist who died last spring at the age of 75, was one hell of a painter, and if you want a surefire way of confirming it, go to the memorial exhibition mounted at Alexandre Gallery, take advantage of the bench in the main gallery, and take a good, hard gander at Read More
The career of the Russian painter Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935), whose Suprematist abstractions are the principal subject of a stunning exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, reads at times like a fever chart of early 20th-century aspirations, ideologies and broken dreams. By temperament and conviction, Malevich was a visionary in search of the Absolute, which, Read More
Are we so blasé about the role played by big money in the art world that the sale of an easel-size abstract painting by Kazimir Malevich for $17 million can be regarded as a routine news story? Apparently.
Malevich’s Suprematist Composition , believed to have been painted circa 1919 to 1920, fetched that remarkable sum Read More
For aficionados of the most absolute of all forms of modernist painting-strict geometrical abstraction-the current exhibition at Pace Wildenstein, Mondrian and Reinhardt: Influence and Affinity , is undoubtedly the event of the season. It brings together the work of the greatest pioneer of geometrical abstraction, the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), with that of the Read More
