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.”

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Hans König: one of the great classical Chinese carpet collectors of our time

A group of rare Chinese carpets spanning the late 16th to the late 18th centuries offers ‘a unique opportunity for collectors’

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Hans König: one of the great classical Chinese carpet collectors of our time

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