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$7,000 STEVE POLESKIE pencil sgnd A P w/Provenance
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Item specifics
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller Signed?: Signed
Medium: Artist’s Proof Fine Art Screen Print
Subject: Landscape
Style: Abstract Minimalist
Date of Creation: 1950-1969
Region of Origin: US
Original/ Reproduction: Original
Size Type/ Largest Dimension:
Medium (Up to 30″)
STEVE POLESKIE
Listed Artist
American Abstract Expressionist
(1938 – )
Minimalist Landscape
Artist’s Proof, Pencil Signed
This Untitled minimalist landscape by Listed Artist, Stephen (Steve) Francis Poleskie, is emblematic of his work between 1963 and 1968, when many of his original silkscreens were abstractions of landscapes and nature. In this piece, within an ~24” diameter circle, the abstraction of an island is distilled to a dark silhouette of land above a thin line of sand, the two dwarfed by a steely blue sky and an ocean of a virtually identical color.
He had founded Chiron Press in 1963 after moving to Manhattan and was both an artist and Master printer until he closed it in 1968 to join the Cornell University faculty in Ithaca. His original silkscreens from that period are today in the permanent collections of MOMA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, Victoria and Albert Museum and The Tate Gallery in London, among others in the U.S. and abroad.
This piece features a distant landscape and horizon line within a circular space; in several respects it has elements common to his 1967 “Sea Target Tondo”, though this piece is much more subtle and universal in its appeal that the 1967 work. It is signed in pencil at lower right “Artist’s Proof v Poleskie”; since he was the Master Printer at Chiron Press, the artist himself hand made this Artist’s proof. The mat opening size IS ~ 24 x 24”.
Provenance: Originally part of the Coopers and Lybrand Art Collection at their then U.S. HQ at 1251 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, this is one of about 30 works on paper in custom teak wood frames which we purchased in ~ 1996. Coopers & Lybrand had a history of supporting the arts, particularly talented artists under age 35. The firm was at the time a worldwide accounting and consulting firm, which subsequently merged in 1998 with Price Waterhouse to form PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world’s largest professional services firm.
Condition: The work has no apparent condition problems. THE QUOTED PRICE IS FOR THE ART ITSELF AND DOES ***NOT *** INCLUDE THE VERY LARGE, HEAVY FRAME, AS IT WOULD BE VERY EXPENSIVE TO SHIP.
It has been difficult to value this piece, because in 2000, he destroyed many of his early works and withdrew many others from the market; fortunately, many museums, galleries, corporate and private collections had already acquired his landscapes, minimalist works and portraiture.
STEVE POLESKIE
Born 1938, Pringle, PA
Artist, Master Printer, Writer, Photographer – He now lives and writes in Ithaca, NY.
Education
1959 Wilkes University, Bachelors in Economics
1962 The New School, NYC – Studied with figurative painter Raphael Soyer
1960/61 Gettysburg, PA – Art teacher – Gettysburg High School
1962 New York City – Opened a studio on 10th Street; became part of the NYC art scene and artists and critics like Willem de Kooning, Frank O’Hara, and Louise Nevelson
1963 Opened a screen-printing shop on 11st St, which became Chiron Press, the first fine-art screen-printing shop in NYC.
Moved to Jefferson St. where as a Master Printer, he made prints for Lichtenstein, Warhol, Rauschenberg, Alex Katz, Rosenquist, Frankenthaler, etc. Poleskie’s original screen prints of his own works, mostly minimalist landscapes, were purchased by MOMA, the Metropolitan Museum and The
Whitney in NY, as well as the National Gallery of Art in D.C. Sold Chiron Press in 1968.
1968 Ithaca, NY –Cornell University – accepted teaching position at the university and was able to devote more time to his own art.
He also learned to fly and developed a kind of art in the sky form, called Aerial Theater, for which is well known. He spent the next 27 years
engaged in Aerial Theater, which was very popular in Europe, especially in Italy, where he lived on and off for more than 3 years.
1978 – NYC – His biplane and drawings for various performances were exhibited at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery in 1978 and ’79. He con
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