signed, titled and dated 1980 upper left; signed and dated on the reverse; unframed
23.5 × 20 in (59.7 × 50.8 cm) (sheet)
Auction Estimate:$3,000 - $5,000
Sale date:February 11 - 25, 2025
Price Realized
$1,800
(including Buyer's Premium)
Provenance
The Estate of Jaan Põldaas
This work by the Post minimalist American artist Richard Nonas (1936-2021) whose work can be found in the public collections of the Albright-Knox, Guggenheim and MOMA, came into Jaan Poldaas’ orbit in the summer of 1980 when Nonas showed two outdoor sculptures at the AGO in conjunction with an exhibition at Mercer Union: Canadian Word-Chaser Series (Installation). Poldaas, who was a founding member of Mercer in 1978, and went regularly to New York with Ric Evans to be amongst the minimalists and conceptualists, likely encountered Nonas in the 70s via Sol LeWitt, and their mutual friend the Australian colour-field painter, Robert Jacks, one of the four painters in the exhibition of the same name at the AGO in 1974, Poldaas’ first museum show.
