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Thomas Nozkowski — Untitled (Z-30)
Thomas Nozkowski — Untitled (Z-30)
Thomas Nozkowski — Untitled (Z-30)
Thomas Nozkowski

Untitled (Z-30)

1988

Thomas Nozkowski's Untitled (Z-30) is an oil on paper work from 1988 that exemplifies his distinctive approach to intimate abstraction. The artist creates compositions that feel simultaneously structured and spontaneous through careful layering of oil paint. Nozkowski's small scale works invite close looking and reward sustained attention to subtle color and formal relationships. The work demonstrates his mastery of a personal visual vocabulary developed over decades of practice.

Medium
oil on paper
Dimensions

Notes

Signed, titled and dated to verso 'Untitled 1988 Thomas Nozkowski'. Provenance: Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, D.C. | Kenneth L. Freed Collection, Boston | Rago, The Kenneth L. Freed Collection of Contemporary Art, 18 November 2006, Lot 244 (part) | Private Collection

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Post War & Contemporary Art

May 14, 2026

Estimate: $4,000$6,000

Lot 335

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Thomas Nozkowski, Untitled (Z-30), 1988

Thomas Nozkowski's Untitled (Z-30) is an oil on paper work from 1988 that exemplifies his distinctive approach to intimate abstraction. The artist creates compositions that feel simultaneously structured and spontaneous through careful layering of oil paint. Nozkowski's small scale works invite close looking and reward sustained attention to subtle color and formal relationships. The work demonstrates his mastery of a personal visual vocabulary developed over decades of practice.

Medium
oil on paper
Dimensions
28.9 x 39.4 cm
Year
1988
Seen at
Wright, Chicago, United States

Related themes

Layered Composition, Gestural Mark Making, Formal Relationships, Structured Abstraction, Contemporary modernism, Personal Vocabulary, Color harmony, Oil on Paper, Intimate Scale, 1980s Art

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