Provenance:

The Artist.

Private Collection, New York.

Lot Note:

David Reed’s #25 belongs to the artist’s early Brushstroke paintings, a seminal series in which he explored the tension between spontaneous gesture and disciplined process. Working wet-into-wet, Reed applied broad strokes of oil paint across tall, narrow canvases in a single, rapid movement. The dimensions of these early works were determined in part by the limits of Reed’s own body- the canvas height corresponded to the door of his studio, while their width was dictated by the reach of his arm. In this way, #25 becomes a record not only of a painted gesture but of the artist’s physical presence, tracing the distance his body could traverse in a single movement. 

Unframed.

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