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RICHARD TUTTLE (b. 1941) untitled dyed and shaped unstretched canvas 391/2 x 721/2 in. (100.3 x 1...

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RICHARD TUTTLE (b. 1941) untitled dyed and shaped unstretched canvas 391/2 x 721/2 in. (100.3 x 1...
RICHARD TUTTLE
(b. 1941)
untitled
dyed and shaped unstretched canvas
391/2 x 721/2 in. (100.3 x 184.2 cm)
executed in 1967
ESTIMATE: $80,000-120,000
PROVENANCE
Galerie Limmer, COLOGNE
Private collection, GERMANY
Underlying the intuitive approach and essentially visual nature of Richard Tuttle's work is a complex set of intellectual values. In spite of their deceptively uncomplicated appearance and often sensuous forms and colors, Tuttle's objects represent a variety of perceptual and associative ideas. Working with common materials-cardboard, cloth, paper, thin metal-he rejects such conventional aesthetic values as purity of execution, permanence and concreteness in the art object. His work since 1965 has become increasingly two-dimensional, moving progressively closer to the wall and ultimately becoming part of it.... The first total denial of thickness came in the 1967 dyed canvas works-irregular geometric shapes attached to the wall with brads, just enough to resist gravity.
R. M. Murdock, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts,
Richard Tuttle catalogue, 1971