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Tony Bechara Maelstrom
作品估价：USD 50,000 - 70,000
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Tony Bechara Maelstrom
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Tony Bechara
b. 1942
Maelstrom
Executed in 2010.
Signed and dated verso
Acrylic on canvas
60 in x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Please note that while this auction is hosted on Sothebys.com, it is being administered by El Museo de Barrio Museum, and all post-sale matters (inclusive of invoicing and property pickup/shipment) will be handled by El Museo. As such, Sotheby’s will share the contact details for the winning bidders with El Museo so that they may be in touch directly post-sale.
This online benefit auction has a 10% buyer’s premium, which will be added to the final hammer price of each sold work. The premium allows El Museo to retain more of the proceeds of the sale and offset administrative costs.
Tony Bechara
b. 1942
Maelstrom
Executed in 2010.
Signed and dated verso
Acrylic on canvas
60 in x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Please note that while this auction is hosted on Sothebys.com, it is being administered by El Museo de Barrio Museum, and all post-sale matters (inclusive of invoicing and property pickup/shipment) will be handled by El Museo. As such, Sotheby’s will share the contact details for the winning bidders with El Museo so that they may be in touch directly post-sale.
This online benefit auction has a 10% buyer’s premium, which will be added to the final hammer price of each sold work. The premium allows El Museo to retain more of the proceeds of the sale and offset administrative costs.
Courtesy of Lisson Gallery, London / New York
Tony Bechara's legacy lives on through his vibrant art, which continues to challenge our perception and understanding of color, and through the institutions and artists he tirelessly supported throughout his remarkable life. His unique approach to color theory incorporated influences across art history, including the palettes of Matisse and Vuillard, the pointillism of Seurat and Signac, traditions of weaving and crafting, the famed Byzantine-era mosaics at Ravenna, and the precision of hard-edge abstraction.
Bechara's richly-hued abstract paintings employ the grid as the foundational element for his exploration of color principles, with a particular focus on the interplay between organization and randomness. Using strips of masking tape, he painstakingly lays out multicolor fields and their overall rhythm is determined by a process that is systematic but designed to encourage combinations of color to emerge by chance. The division of the surface of the painting into small modular boxes is similar to the effect of pixels; the gaze is constantly in motion. Bechara presents the viewer with their retinal and neurological relationship to color, balancing one’s immediate impression of hue and the overarching logic of pattern.
Tony Bechara was born in Puerto Rico in 1942. A graduate of Georgetown University, Bechara attended Georgetown Law School and New York University before later studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and the New York School of Visual Art. He settled in New York and developed his dynamic, color-saturated paintings over the following five decades.
Bechara served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of El Museo del Barrio for 15 years (2000-2015), and became Chairman Emeritus in 2016. As Chairman of the Board at El Museo del Barrio, Bechara played a pivotal leadership role in the institution’s transformation into a nationally and internationally recognized LatinX and Latin American art museum.
His work can be found in numerous public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA; the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, USA; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE, USA; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. His work was also recently acquired by the Brooklyn Museum for their permanent collection.
b. 1942
Maelstrom
Executed in 2010.
Signed and dated verso
Acrylic on canvas
60 in x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Please note that while this auction is hosted on Sothebys.com, it is being administered by El Museo de Barrio Museum, and all post-sale matters (inclusive of invoicing and property pickup/shipment) will be handled by El Museo. As such, Sotheby’s will share the contact details for the winning bidders with El Museo so that they may be in touch directly post-sale.
This online benefit auction has a 10% buyer’s premium, which will be added to the final hammer price of each sold work. The premium allows El Museo to retain more of the proceeds of the sale and offset administrative costs.
Tony Bechara
b. 1942
Maelstrom
Executed in 2010.
Signed and dated verso
Acrylic on canvas
60 in x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
Please note that while this auction is hosted on Sothebys.com, it is being administered by El Museo de Barrio Museum, and all post-sale matters (inclusive of invoicing and property pickup/shipment) will be handled by El Museo. As such, Sotheby’s will share the contact details for the winning bidders with El Museo so that they may be in touch directly post-sale.
This online benefit auction has a 10% buyer’s premium, which will be added to the final hammer price of each sold work. The premium allows El Museo to retain more of the proceeds of the sale and offset administrative costs.
Courtesy of Lisson Gallery, London / New York
Tony Bechara's legacy lives on through his vibrant art, which continues to challenge our perception and understanding of color, and through the institutions and artists he tirelessly supported throughout his remarkable life. His unique approach to color theory incorporated influences across art history, including the palettes of Matisse and Vuillard, the pointillism of Seurat and Signac, traditions of weaving and crafting, the famed Byzantine-era mosaics at Ravenna, and the precision of hard-edge abstraction.
Bechara's richly-hued abstract paintings employ the grid as the foundational element for his exploration of color principles, with a particular focus on the interplay between organization and randomness. Using strips of masking tape, he painstakingly lays out multicolor fields and their overall rhythm is determined by a process that is systematic but designed to encourage combinations of color to emerge by chance. The division of the surface of the painting into small modular boxes is similar to the effect of pixels; the gaze is constantly in motion. Bechara presents the viewer with their retinal and neurological relationship to color, balancing one’s immediate impression of hue and the overarching logic of pattern.
Tony Bechara was born in Puerto Rico in 1942. A graduate of Georgetown University, Bechara attended Georgetown Law School and New York University before later studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and the New York School of Visual Art. He settled in New York and developed his dynamic, color-saturated paintings over the following five decades.
Bechara served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of El Museo del Barrio for 15 years (2000-2015), and became Chairman Emeritus in 2016. As Chairman of the Board at El Museo del Barrio, Bechara played a pivotal leadership role in the institution’s transformation into a nationally and internationally recognized LatinX and Latin American art museum.
His work can be found in numerous public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA; El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY, USA; the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY, USA; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; the Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE, USA; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. His work was also recently acquired by the Brooklyn Museum for their permanent collection.