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Harold Ancart — In soot, dust and burning, Harold Ancart finds a fragile and fugitive elegance. Often working with found media – he sets photographs of tropical beaches aflame – motifs such as palm trees and parrots recur in his work, only to be offset by the delicate restraint of his works on paper. His is a practice concerned with removal and destruction, and the spaces between objects.
Harold Ancart

In soot, dust and burning, Harold Ancart finds a fragile and fugitive elegance. Often working with found media – he sets photographs of tropical beaches aflame – motifs such as palm trees and parrots recur in his work, only to be offset by the delicate restraint of his works on paper. His is a practice concerned with removal and destruction, and the spaces between objects.

Harold Ancart's oil stick on paper work embodies his signature interplay between lush tropical motifs and the quiet tension of negative space. Rich, gestural marks rendered in oil stick evoke both abundance and absence, as recurring imagery of palms or exotic fauna emerges through a process rooted in restraint and reduction. Housed in the artist's own frame, the work exists as a complete, intentional object — a meditation on what remains when the extraneous is stripped away.

Medium
oil stick on paper, in artist's frame
Spotted At
Auction House · Phillips

🔨 Auction Lot

Contemporary Art Evening Sale

June 29, 2015

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Harold Ancart, In soot, dust and burning, Harold Ancart finds a fragile and fugitive elegance. Often working with found media – he sets photographs of tropical beaches aflame – motifs such as palm trees and parrots recur in his work, only to be offset by the delicate restraint of his works on paper. His is a practice concerned with removal and destruction, and the spaces between objects.

Harold Ancart's oil stick on paper work embodies his signature interplay between lush tropical motifs and the quiet tension of negative space. Rich, gestural marks rendered in oil stick evoke both abundance and absence, as recurring imagery of palms or exotic fauna emerges through a process rooted in restraint and reduction. Housed in the artist's own frame, the work exists as a complete, intentional object — a meditation on what remains when the extraneous is stripped away.

Medium
oil stick on paper, in artist's frame
Seen at
Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Contemplative Mood, Destructive Process, Figurative Abstraction, Tropical Imagery, Nature Motifs, Mid-Career Artist, Nature Imagery, Muted Palette, Belgian Artist, Male Artist, Mixed Media, Emerging Artist, Contemporary Artist, Muted Tones, Earthy Tones, Works on Paper, Destruction Aesthetic, Contemporary Art, Tropical Motifs, Oil Stick, Minimalist Style, Early 21st Century, Gestural Drawing

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