Systemic Painting

The term Systemic Painting goes back to the 1966 exhibition organized by the influential art critic Lawrence Alloway (1926-1990) at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The title of the exhibition also refers to the difficult-to-define art style that can be placed between Hard Edge and Minimal Art. With Systemic Painting, Alloway attempts to classify the new aesthetic, which, in contrast to Abstract Expressionism, had a great interest in a systematic pictorial language. In their works, the artists shown completely dispensed with expressive gestures and existential drama in favor of a cool, reductive, two-dimensional form of expression.

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Agnes Martin
Lot 111 Earth II , 1958
oil on canvas

€ 2,800,000 - 3,700,000
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Ellsworth Kelly
Lot 123 Yellow Relief with White , 2010
oil on canvas, on two joined panels

€ 1,400,000 - 1,900,000
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Frank Stella
Lot 113 Ifafa I , 1963
metallic powder in polymer emulsion on canvas

€ 13,000,000 - 17,000,000
10 days | Heritage Auctions Texas
Frank Stella
Lot 77021 Eskimo Curlew (from Exotic Birds series) , 1976
Mixed media on Tycore board

€ 38,000 - 56,000
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