Portland

Name: RALPH HUMPHREY (1932-1990)
Brand: Portland
Price: 11000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised USD 13,750

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USD 10,000 - USD 15,000

Closed: 23 Aug 2018

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RALPH HUMPHREY (1932-1990)

Portland

Price Realised USD 13,750

Closed: 23 Aug 2018

Price Realised USD 13,750

Closed: 23 Aug 2018

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RALPH HUMPHREY (1932-1990)
Portland
titled 'PORTLAND' (on the stretcher)
acrylic on canvas
54 ⅛ x 107 ½ in. (137.5 x 273.1 cm.)
Painted in 1968.

Regina Aprijaskis, Peru, circa 1969
By descent from the above to the present owner

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Lot Essay

Ralph Humphrey's is more aggressively physical than chromatic, as the shaped canvas reasserts the painting's physical structure. Known as one of Humphrey's Constructed Paintings, the present lot leans toward monochrome, yet there is a certain luminosity that angles through the vertical slats that line the surface of the canvas. Inspired by both Theodoros Stamos and Mark Rothko, Humphrey once mused, “The work should create its own light.”