Four Color Frame Painting #3
1983
Robert Mangold's Four Color Frame Painting #3 is an abstract composition created with acrylic and charcoal across four adjoined pieces of wood. The work exemplifies Mangold's exploration of color relationships and geometric forms within a divided pictorial space.
- Medium
- acrylic and charcoal on four adjoined pieces of wood
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session
May 16, 2023
Estimate: $60,000 to $80,000
Sold: $196,850
Artists in conversation
Frank Stella
American · b. 1936
Stella similarly explored geometric abstraction using shaped and divided supports, often working with wood and industrial materials to create compositions where form and color are structurally interdependent, closely mirroring Mangold's approach in this piece.
Ellsworth Kelly
American · b. 1923
Kelly's work with multi panel color field compositions and hard edge geometric forms across adjoined canvases directly parallels the divided pictorial space and color relationships central to this specific Mangold painting.
Brice Marden
American · b. 1938
Marden's minimalist multi panel works using muted color relationships and a restrained palette on divided supports share the same quiet geometric rigor and material sensitivity that Mangold demonstrates in this acrylic and charcoal composition.
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