
Ragworts
2021
Ragworts, painted in 2021 with gouache and color pencil on paper, distills Doron Langberg's signature sensitivity into an intimate, small-scale composition measuring just 25.4 by 20.3 centimeters. The work takes its name from the common flowering plant, and Langberg renders the subject with a tenderness that transforms botanical observation into something quietly charged. His handling of gouache, layered alongside color pencil, produces a surface that feels simultaneously direct and luminous, the colors building warmth and texture across the modest sheet. This interplay between media reflects the artist's broader commitment to finding emotional density within the everyday, treating humble subject matter with the same attentiveness he brings to his celebrated figurative paintings. Langberg, born in Israel in 1985 and trained at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, has established a critically recognized body of work concerned with intimacy, perception, and the charged quality of lived experience. His paintings and works on paper are held in the permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and he has exhibited widely across New York, London, and Berlin. A work on paper of this scale offers collectors a rare and accessible point of entry into his practice, carrying the full weight of his visual intelligence in a format suited to close, personal looking. This lot is offered through the Art Keeps Nonprofits Going Benefit Auction, with proceeds supporting the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Heart of Dinner via The Here and There Collective, a fiscally sponsored project operating under the tax-exempt umbrella of Players Philanthropy Fund, a 501(c)(3) charitable trust. Contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent permitted by law. Prospective buyers should note that this lot is subject to a five-year resale restriction.
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- Gouache and color pencil on paper
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