A beautiful watercolor on paper, 14-1/2 x 16-1/4", by the artist Pat Lipsky completed in 1996 and at some point presented as a gift or dedication to the artist's friend Piri Halasz. It is signed, dated and inscribed by Lipsky on the reverse: "For Piri, with affection and respect, Pat 1996". Piri was an American art critic, educator and writer, and in her book A Memoir Of Creativity: Abstract Painting, Politics & The Media, 1956–2008 she highlights her interactions with New York's art elite, including her first encounter with Lipsky in 1985 at the storied Andre Emmerich gallery.
Pat Lipsky is a brilliant color field artist who has earned her recognition by just about all of our major museums and institutions through a ouvre of exceptional works. Experiences with Clement Greenberg appear to have been formative for both Lipky and Halasz, and Lipsky's described this a bit in a 2013 interview with Ira Rosenberg for the Art Students League publication LINEA:
"When I met him during the 1970s, I was going through some very big difficulties in my own life—with a divorce, my children. In 1982, I was 41, at a nadir. I’m walking down the street, around 82nd Street, between Fifth and Madison. There is Mr. Greenberg at a moment when I was being avoided, more or less, by anyone from my age group. He said, “How are you? What’s going on? How’s your working going? Send me slides.” So we became friends. Then we put a panel together in 1984 called “The Importance of Taste in Art,” which was fascinating. He was interested in Kant, particularly his Critique of Aesthetic Judgement. What my work is all about, and I believe your work is all about, and anyone who’s really interested in the field is about: aesthetic experience. He put it this way: “We go to art for what art alone can give us. We go to art to be moved. We go to art for aesthetic experience. We don’t go to art to read a treatise on philosophy. If you want a treatise or philosophy, there are great ones, but I’m talking about art.”"
This is an outstanding work on paper that is distinguished both in its unique medium for the artist as well as its connection to a rich history of New York abstract expressionism. Be sure to check out the other Pat Lipsky painting we have for sale!
Pat Lipsky, untitled, 1996, watercolor on paper
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