Held stephen westfall (3 résultats)

Paperback. Etat : Fine. 1st. 44 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 23 x 27 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held December 9, 2010 to January 29, 2011 at Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe, New York. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "By the beginning of the '60s Al Held's signature painting style of short broad brush strokes had transformed into longer sure handed lines. The difference was particularly evident in his ink drawings from that time. Stephen Westfall's comments in connection with these works puts them into a broader context; "We're so accustomed to thinking of Held as a late master of the tape roll that the freehand elegance of these drawings comes as a surprise. It helps to remember that Held was really one of the last great Abstract Expressionists up until his shift to hard-edged painting. The transformation of the formal apprehension of the elasticity of pictorial scale into poetic content was probably the great shared drama of the Abstract Expressionists and Held is a master of this operation." Held: Concrete Abstraction will offer an opportunity to see several works on paper done in ink and brush along with a selection of canvases from this period." - Publisher. Size: Oblong. Collectible.…

Softcover exhibition catalog, 40 pages; very good condition, clean and crisp, no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No dust jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Soft cover. Printed stiff wrappers; no dust jacket as issued. Paintings by Al Held. Essay by Stephen Westfall. Unpaginated (44 pp.), with 1 four-color plate and 19 black-and-white plates finely printed on heavy matte paper. 8-3/4 x 10-1/2 inches. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Ameringer McEnery Yohe Gallery. Fine.…