de Kooning Gorky Pollack

Carl Andre

"When I was in college in the mid-1970s, Carl Andre was god. For those of us striving to be serious artists, writers, and art historians, Andre was the paragon. His art was coolly intellectual, deceptively simple and austere, yet surprising and provocative... I knew about Carl’s poems early on...For each poem he wrote, Carl made several carbon copies. He’d send one to Hollis Frampton or Sol Lewitt, and distributed the others only to his closest friends. The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam has a wonderful and in-depth collection of Andre’s poems."

Yasmil Raymond, co-curator of Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010, Dia:Beacon, May 5, 2014–March 2, 2015, from a conversation with David Ebony for Yale University Press, 2014.

This carbon copy of Andre's poem "de Kooning Gorky Pollack" is the only known version in this format. The poem was devised in three sheets in the format of a list, rather than one continuous block of text, of which the original and 13 xerox copies are known. The location of the original from which the present carbon copy was made is no longer known, and may no longer exist.

Artist
Carl Andre (b. 1935)
Title
de Kooning Gorky Pollack
Medium
Carbon copy on paper mounted on board
Date
1962
Size
6 x 6 1/8 in : 15.2 x 15.6 cm
Inscriptions
Signed, titled, inscribed and dated 'de Kooning Gorky Pollack [sic] (Carbon) 1962 Carl Andre' (on the reverse)
Provenance
Hollis Frampton, New York
Private collection, New York
Christie's, New York, 16 March 2006, lot 188
Private collection, Florida
Christie's, New York, 11 May 2016, lot 504
Literature
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the complete poems of Carl Andre.
Exhibited
"NO EXIT", Peter Blum Gallery, New York, February 11 - April 15, 2017
Reference
A21-69 / C16-43
Status
No Longer Available

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