Willem de Kooning, represented by a late, rather weak Abstract Expressionist painting of 1983, "Untitled XIV," exceeded its high estimate by a third at £3.96 million, again causing surprise among specialists, as Mr. Meyer gladly admitted.
8″ x 10″ painting of winter landscape, artist unknown.
Paint-daubed, he is standing in front of his delicate drip painting of 1949, "Summertime".
Each channel was built with 16 recyclable cans blackened with common opaque black paint of 0.903 absorptance and 0.097 reflectance.
The resulting works are reasonably similar pastiches of 1980s Neo-Expression and the physically idiosyncratic abstract painting of today.
"American Gothic" is a painting of 1930 by Grant Wood, showing a white, middle-aged couple in front of a farm.
On its second floor hangs her painting of July 4 fireworks exploding over a rooftop in Boston's Back Bay.
One painting of 1960 is inscribed and entitled, with something like Artaud's semi-coherent rage, Les Anges, Merde, Fuck You.
In 1947, he wrote in his journal, "Working all three days on painting of Christmas tree, with our front room, the middle arch & part of the middle room.
The show opens with the atmospheric painting of 1889 by the Armenian artist Ivan Aivazovski, "The Descent of Noah From Mount Ararat," from the National Gallery in Yerevan.
(A terrific painting of 1914, "Improvisation 35," is ruined for me by my eye's insuperable conviction that there is a football helmet in the middle of it).
