2nd Theme 6th Variation (Four Lascaux Grays)

Artist Henry Pearson American, 1914–2006

Date1984

MediumLiquitex, Lascaux, and Flashe on canvas

Dimensions36 x 36 x 2 in. (91.4 x 91.4 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Terry and Ed Duffy

Object number2001.7.2

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2nd Theme 6th Variation (Four Lascaux Grays) comes from a series of checkerboard paintings that explore color relationships. (Pearson named the panel for the colors used. Lascaux is a French brand name for an acrylic.) The shapes interact with an airtight exactitude. And the potency of color and syncopated rhythms are distinctively Pearson's. Like all of Pearson's work, the painting demonstrates his admirable consistencies: precision, elegance, and, for all the conceptual sophistication, an appealing humility.
ProvenanceCreated New York, 1984; collection of the artist; [Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York]; Terry and Ed Duffy, New York; given to NCMA, 2001.

Published ReferencesHuston Paschal, "New Acquisitions: Henry Pearson, Romantic Painter of Abstractions," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (January/February 2002), mentioned 7, illus. (color).

United States Embassy Copenhagen: ART in Embassies Exhibition (Washington, DC: ART in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, 2007), briefly discussed 22, illus. (color), 23 (image reproduced rotated 90 degrees to the left).
Exhibition HistoryUnited States Embassy Copenhagen, ART in Embassies Program, July 14, 2006–February 6, 2009. Object Rights Statement

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