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MAX GIMBLETT - To Yves Klein, 1985
Estimate:
$8,000 - $12,000
Sold
$9,500
Live Auction
IMPORTANT & RARE ART
ARTIST
MAX GIMBLETT (b. 1935)
Size
56 x 76.5 cm
Description
Pencil, acrylic polymer and metallic pigment
on Arches Watercolour 300lb paper
Signature
Signed, inscribed & dated 1985
Literature
A work from the same series was gifted by Max Gimblett and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett to the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetū.
“The quatrefoil is an ancient image with limitless meanings. It has long appeared on Christian churches, the four leaves sometimes being taken to stand for the four evangelists. […] It appears in the design of Japanese sword guards. It echoes the mandalas that fascinated Carl Jung with his four-way division of human activity: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking. For [Max] it is [also] the outline of your mother’s crochet work discovered under glass in her house after she died.” —Lewis Hyde, writer and cultural critic, United States (Max Gimblett: Ocean Wheel 1 August – 15 November 2020)
“The quatrefoil is an ancient image with limitless meanings. It has long appeared on Christian churches, the four leaves sometimes being taken to stand for the four evangelists. […] It appears in the design of Japanese sword guards. It echoes the mandalas that fascinated Carl Jung with his four-way division of human activity: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking. For [Max] it is [also] the outline of your mother’s crochet work discovered under glass in her house after she died.” —Lewis Hyde, writer and cultural critic, United States (Max Gimblett: Ocean Wheel 1 August – 15 November 2020)
