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Pete Omlor (American, b. 1947), "Ohr-Pink" - acrylic on canvas, ca. 1980s CE. An enormous painting of pure abstraction or non-objectivity by the artist Pete Omler, whose style demonstrates influences of Hard Edge and Color Field painting. Note how Omler's minimalist composition embraces pure geometry and a bold color palette - how it engages strictly with formal concepts of line, shape, color, and texture. We see an open field of colorful floating squares - two striated in hues of seafoam green, lemon yellow, aquamarine, olive green, periwinkle blue, lavender, and yellow ochre and one of saturated royal blue (recalling the famous international Yves Klein blue). There is a devout economy of form and a profound respect for color that turns away from the intensely dramatic and painterly quality of Abstract Expressionism/Action Painting. Instead Omlor's hard edge colored forms are more akin to those of Joseph Stella and Kenneth Noland and pay homage to masters of geometric abstraction such as Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers, and Ad Reinhardt. Size: 73.5" L x 73" W (186.7 cm x 185.4 cm)

Provenance: ex Allen Davis collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

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#131287

  • Condition: Slight damage on two corners of the frame. Canvas is a bit loose with indentation from stretcher bars on center, bottom, and top. Two dents to lower left quadrant. Still, these issues are relatively minor and the piece makes a grand impression.

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