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Dan ChristensenIndian Summer1983
1983
$8,625
£6,536.75
€7,497.11
CA$12,050.76
A$13,146.73
CHF 6,972.76
MX$158,388.44
NOK 88,497.84
SEK 81,022.17
DKK 55,992.17
About the Item
Dan Christensen (1942-2007) is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost abstract artist. Over the course his lengthy career, Christensen was devoted to exploring and expanding the constantly shifting aesthetics of 20th century abstraction.
Christensen established his reputation at the end of the 1960s, by using spray guns to create colorful stacks, loops, and lines in his artworks. This body of work was considered by the legendary art critic Clement Greenberg among the most original abstract paintings of the decade.
Unlike many of his contemporaries who dedicated themselves to a signature style, Christensen was unrelentingly curious and allowed his dynamic version of abstraction to evolve as he tried new techniques and varied his aesthetic.
During the 1980's in particular, Christensen focused on experimenting with different forms of washing, spraying, and layering colours over top of each other. The works from Christensen's late period combine the gestural drama of Abstract Expressionism with the stained surface look popularized by the color field artists.
The aesthetic complexity he achieved with these combined techniques are perfectly demonstrated in this later untitled work (aka "Indian Summer"). Starting with a opaque metallic background, Christensen offers a gestural arrangement in aqua and periwinkle blue, orange, currant red and lemon yellow. A closer inspection of this work reveals Christensen’s laborious scratching-into technique, carving lines into the paint to reveal the complexities of the layered colors.
Over the course of Christensen's lengthy career, he has had numerous solo exhibitions in both galleries and renowned institutions across America and beyond. His works can be found in such museums including the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Metropolitan, the MoMA, and the Albright-Knox Gallery, among many others.
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Untitled ("Indian Summer")
USA, 1983
Signed and dated by the artist
Acrylic and mixed media on paper
30.25"H 22.75"W (work)
Very good condition.
Provenance: the Estate of Dan Christensen
- Creator:Dan Christensen (1942 - 2007, American)
- Creation Year:1983
- Dimensions:Height: 32.25 in (81.92 cm)Width: 22.75 in (57.79 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Toronto, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: 12-221stDibs: LU215211400212
Dan Christensen
Dan Christensen, (October 6, 1942 – January 20, 2007) was an American abstract painter He is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction, Color field painting and Abstract expressionism.Christensen was born in Cozad, Nebraska, and died in Easthampton, New York. His early work from 1965-1966 was related to Minimalism. A graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, class of 1964, Dan Christensen moved to New York City from the Mid-West during the late summer of 1965. Christensen was represented by several influential galleries including the Andre Emmerich Gallery, the Salander/O'Reilly Gallery and various others throughout the United States and Europe. He has had more than seventy-five solo exhibitions and his work has been included in hundreds of group exhibitions. His paintings are in important museum collections throughout the United States and Europe.
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