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HAROLD ANCART(geb. 1980)

$395,000

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<div>Harold Ancart’s <em>Untitled </em>(2015) reflects the artist’s poetic engagement with landscape and memory, created in the wake of his transformative 2014 cross-country road trip across the United States. During this journey, Ancart converted his car into a mobile studio, stopping spontaneously to sketch and record fleeting impressions of the natural environment. These observations informed a new body of work that magnified and abstracted ephemeral moments in the landscape, ultimately inspiring his first major institutional solo exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston in 2016. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>In this painting, a luminous, stylized plant rises against a deep black ground, its elongated leaves rendered in radiant greens, yellows, and reds that appear to glow against the darkness. The composition balances graphic clarity with expressive spontaneity—gestural marks and splashes of color orbit the central form like fragments of light or drifting pollen. By isolating and enlarging a single botanical subject, Ancart transforms a fleeting natural encounter into a monumental image that feels both intimate and cosmic. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Plant imagery has remained a recurring motif throughout Ancart’s practice, reappearing in later exhibitions including his 2022–2023 presentation at Gagosian. Trained in Belgium and later influenced by the legacy of American abstraction after relocating to New York in 2007, Ancart’s work merges a European sensibility with the expressive freedom of postwar American painting. </div> <div>Harold Ancart’s <em>Untitled </em>(2015) reflects the artist’s poetic engagement with landscape and memory, created in the wake of his transformative 2014 cross-country road trip across the United States. During this journey, Ancart converted his car into a mobile studio, stopping spontaneously to sketch and record fleeting impressions of the natural environment. These observations informed a new body of work that magnified and abstracted ephemeral moments in the landscape, ultimately inspiring his first major institutional solo exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston in 2016. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>In this painting, a luminous, stylized plant rises against a deep black ground, its elongated leaves rendered in radiant greens, yellows, and reds that appear to glow against the darkness. The composition balances graphic clarity with expressive spontaneity—gestural marks and splashes of color orbit the central form like fragments of light or drifting pollen. By isolating and enlarging a single botanical subject, Ancart transforms a fleeting natural encounter into a monumental image that feels both intimate and cosmic. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Plant imagery has remained a recurring motif throughout Ancart’s practice, reappearing in later exhibitions including his 2022–2023 presentation at Gagosian. Trained in Belgium and later influenced by the legacy of American abstraction after relocating to New York in 2007, Ancart’s work merges a European sensibility with the expressive freedom of postwar American painting. </div> <div>Harold Ancart’s <em>Untitled </em>(2015) reflects the artist’s poetic engagement with landscape and memory, created in the wake of his transformative 2014 cross-country road trip across the United States. During this journey, Ancart converted his car into a mobile studio, stopping spontaneously to sketch and record fleeting impressions of the natural environment. These observations informed a new body of work that magnified and abstracted ephemeral moments in the landscape, ultimately inspiring his first major institutional solo exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston in 2016. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>In this painting, a luminous, stylized plant rises against a deep black ground, its elongated leaves rendered in radiant greens, yellows, and reds that appear to glow against the darkness. The composition balances graphic clarity with expressive spontaneity—gestural marks and splashes of color orbit the central form like fragments of light or drifting pollen. By isolating and enlarging a single botanical subject, Ancart transforms a fleeting natural encounter into a monumental image that feels both intimate and cosmic. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Plant imagery has remained a recurring motif throughout Ancart’s practice, reappearing in later exhibitions including his 2022–2023 presentation at Gagosian. Trained in Belgium and later influenced by the legacy of American abstraction after relocating to New York in 2007, Ancart’s work merges a European sensibility with the expressive freedom of postwar American painting. </div> <div>Harold Ancart’s <em>Untitled </em>(2015) reflects the artist’s poetic engagement with landscape and memory, created in the wake of his transformative 2014 cross-country road trip across the United States. During this journey, Ancart converted his car into a mobile studio, stopping spontaneously to sketch and record fleeting impressions of the natural environment. These observations informed a new body of work that magnified and abstracted ephemeral moments in the landscape, ultimately inspiring his first major institutional solo exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston in 2016. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>In this painting, a luminous, stylized plant rises against a deep black ground, its elongated leaves rendered in radiant greens, yellows, and reds that appear to glow against the darkness. The composition balances graphic clarity with expressive spontaneity—gestural marks and splashes of color orbit the central form like fragments of light or drifting pollen. By isolating and enlarging a single botanical subject, Ancart transforms a fleeting natural encounter into a monumental image that feels both intimate and cosmic. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Plant imagery has remained a recurring motif throughout Ancart’s practice, reappearing in later exhibitions including his 2022–2023 presentation at Gagosian. Trained in Belgium and later influenced by the legacy of American abstraction after relocating to New York in 2007, Ancart’s work merges a European sensibility with the expressive freedom of postwar American painting. </div> <div>Harold Ancart’s <em>Untitled </em>(2015) reflects the artist’s poetic engagement with landscape and memory, created in the wake of his transformative 2014 cross-country road trip across the United States. During this journey, Ancart converted his car into a mobile studio, stopping spontaneously to sketch and record fleeting impressions of the natural environment. These observations informed a new body of work that magnified and abstracted ephemeral moments in the landscape, ultimately inspiring his first major institutional solo exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston in 2016. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>In this painting, a luminous, stylized plant rises against a deep black ground, its elongated leaves rendered in radiant greens, yellows, and reds that appear to glow against the darkness. The composition balances graphic clarity with expressive spontaneity—gestural marks and splashes of color orbit the central form like fragments of light or drifting pollen. By isolating and enlarging a single botanical subject, Ancart transforms a fleeting natural encounter into a monumental image that feels both intimate and cosmic. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Plant imagery has remained a recurring motif throughout Ancart’s practice, reappearing in later exhibitions including his 2022–2023 presentation at Gagosian. Trained in Belgium and later influenced by the legacy of American abstraction after relocating to New York in 2007, Ancart’s work merges a European sensibility with the expressive freedom of postwar American painting. </div> <div>Harold Ancart’s <em>Untitled </em>(2015) reflects the artist’s poetic engagement with landscape and memory, created in the wake of his transformative 2014 cross-country road trip across the United States. During this journey, Ancart converted his car into a mobile studio, stopping spontaneously to sketch and record fleeting impressions of the natural environment. These observations informed a new body of work that magnified and abstracted ephemeral moments in the landscape, ultimately inspiring his first major institutional solo exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston in 2016. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>In this painting, a luminous, stylized plant rises against a deep black ground, its elongated leaves rendered in radiant greens, yellows, and reds that appear to glow against the darkness. The composition balances graphic clarity with expressive spontaneity—gestural marks and splashes of color orbit the central form like fragments of light or drifting pollen. By isolating and enlarging a single botanical subject, Ancart transforms a fleeting natural encounter into a monumental image that feels both intimate and cosmic. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Plant imagery has remained a recurring motif throughout Ancart’s practice, reappearing in later exhibitions including his 2022–2023 presentation at Gagosian. Trained in Belgium and later influenced by the legacy of American abstraction after relocating to New York in 2007, Ancart’s work merges a European sensibility with the expressive freedom of postwar American painting. </div> <div>Harold Ancart’s <em>Untitled </em>(2015) reflects the artist’s poetic engagement with landscape and memory, created in the wake of his transformative 2014 cross-country road trip across the United States. During this journey, Ancart converted his car into a mobile studio, stopping spontaneously to sketch and record fleeting impressions of the natural environment. These observations informed a new body of work that magnified and abstracted ephemeral moments in the landscape, ultimately inspiring his first major institutional solo exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston in 2016. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>In this painting, a luminous, stylized plant rises against a deep black ground, its elongated leaves rendered in radiant greens, yellows, and reds that appear to glow against the darkness. The composition balances graphic clarity with expressive spontaneity—gestural marks and splashes of color orbit the central form like fragments of light or drifting pollen. By isolating and enlarging a single botanical subject, Ancart transforms a fleeting natural encounter into a monumental image that feels both intimate and cosmic. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Plant imagery has remained a recurring motif throughout Ancart’s practice, reappearing in later exhibitions including his 2022–2023 presentation at Gagosian. Trained in Belgium and later influenced by the legacy of American abstraction after relocating to New York in 2007, Ancart’s work merges a European sensibility with the expressive freedom of postwar American painting. </div> <div>Harold Ancart’s <em>Untitled </em>(2015) reflects the artist’s poetic engagement with landscape and memory, created in the wake of his transformative 2014 cross-country road trip across the United States. During this journey, Ancart converted his car into a mobile studio, stopping spontaneously to sketch and record fleeting impressions of the natural environment. These observations informed a new body of work that magnified and abstracted ephemeral moments in the landscape, ultimately inspiring his first major institutional solo exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston in 2016. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>In this painting, a luminous, stylized plant rises against a deep black ground, its elongated leaves rendered in radiant greens, yellows, and reds that appear to glow against the darkness. The composition balances graphic clarity with expressive spontaneity—gestural marks and splashes of color orbit the central form like fragments of light or drifting pollen. By isolating and enlarging a single botanical subject, Ancart transforms a fleeting natural encounter into a monumental image that feels both intimate and cosmic. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Plant imagery has remained a recurring motif throughout Ancart’s practice, reappearing in later exhibitions including his 2022–2023 presentation at Gagosian. Trained in Belgium and later influenced by the legacy of American abstraction after relocating to New York in 2007, Ancart’s work merges a European sensibility with the expressive freedom of postwar American painting. </div> <div>Harold Ancart’s <em>Untitled </em>(2015) reflects the artist’s poetic engagement with landscape and memory, created in the wake of his transformative 2014 cross-country road trip across the United States. During this journey, Ancart converted his car into a mobile studio, stopping spontaneously to sketch and record fleeting impressions of the natural environment. These observations informed a new body of work that magnified and abstracted ephemeral moments in the landscape, ultimately inspiring his first major institutional solo exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston in 2016. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>In this painting, a luminous, stylized plant rises against a deep black ground, its elongated leaves rendered in radiant greens, yellows, and reds that appear to glow against the darkness. The composition balances graphic clarity with expressive spontaneity—gestural marks and splashes of color orbit the central form like fragments of light or drifting pollen. By isolating and enlarging a single botanical subject, Ancart transforms a fleeting natural encounter into a monumental image that feels both intimate and cosmic. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Plant imagery has remained a recurring motif throughout Ancart’s practice, reappearing in later exhibitions including his 2022–2023 presentation at Gagosian. Trained in Belgium and later influenced by the legacy of American abstraction after relocating to New York in 2007, Ancart’s work merges a European sensibility with the expressive freedom of postwar American painting. </div> <div>Harold Ancart’s <em>Untitled </em>(2015) reflects the artist’s poetic engagement with landscape and memory, created in the wake of his transformative 2014 cross-country road trip across the United States. During this journey, Ancart converted his car into a mobile studio, stopping spontaneously to sketch and record fleeting impressions of the natural environment. These observations informed a new body of work that magnified and abstracted ephemeral moments in the landscape, ultimately inspiring his first major institutional solo exhibition at The Menil Collection in Houston in 2016. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>In this painting, a luminous, stylized plant rises against a deep black ground, its elongated leaves rendered in radiant greens, yellows, and reds that appear to glow against the darkness. The composition balances graphic clarity with expressive spontaneity—gestural marks and splashes of color orbit the central form like fragments of light or drifting pollen. By isolating and enlarging a single botanical subject, Ancart transforms a fleeting natural encounter into a monumental image that feels both intimate and cosmic. </div><br><br><div> </div><br><br><div>Plant imagery has remained a recurring motif throughout Ancart’s practice, reappearing in later exhibitions including his 2022–2023 presentation at Gagosian. Trained in Belgium and later influenced by the legacy of American abstraction after relocating to New York in 2007, Ancart’s work merges a European sensibility with the expressive freedom of postwar American painting. </div>
Ohne TitelEntstanden im Jahr 2015112 x 80 Zoll(284,48 x 203,2 cm) Ölstift und Bleistift auf Leinwand, auf Holz aufgezogen, in einem vom Künstler ausgewählten Rahmen
Provenienz
CLEARING, New York
Privatsammlung, erworben bei der oben genannten Auktion, 2015
Sotheby's, New York, 12. Oktober 2023, Los 14
Privatsammlung, erworben bei der oben genannten Auktion
Harold Ancarts „Untitled“ (2015) spiegelt die poetische Auseinandersetzung des Künstlers mit Landschaft und Erinnerung wider und entstand im Anschluss an seine prägende Reise quer durch die Vereinigten Staaten im Jahr 2014. Während dieser Reise verwandelte Ancart sein Auto in ein mobiles Atelier und hielt spontan an, um flüchtige Eindrücke der Natur zu skizzieren und festzuhalten. Diese Beobachtungen flossen in ein neues Werk ein, das flüchtige Momente in der Landschaft vergrößerte und abstrahierte und schließlich seine erste große institutionelle Einzelausstellung in der Menil Collection in Houston im Jahr 2016 inspirierte.





In diesem Gemälde erhebt sich eine leuchtende, stilisierte Pflanze vor einem tiefschwarzen Hintergrund, deren langgestreckte Blätter in strahlendem Grün, Gelb und Rot dargestellt sind, das vor der Dunkelheit zu leuchten scheint. Die Komposition schafft ein Gleichgewicht zwischen grafischer Klarheit und expressiver Spontaneität – gestische Striche und Farbspritzer umkreisen die zentrale Form wie Lichtfragmente oder schwebender Pollen. Indem er ein einzelnes botanisches Motiv isoliert und vergrößert, verwandelt Ancart eine flüchtige Begegnung mit der Natur in ein monumentales Bild, das sich zugleich intim und kosmisch anfühlt.


 


Pflanzenbilder sind ein wiederkehrendes Motiv in Ancarts Schaffen geblieben und tauchen in späteren Ausstellungen wieder auf, darunter seine Präsentation 2022–2023 bei Gagosian. Ancart, der in Belgien ausgebildet wurde und nach seinem Umzug nach New York im Jahr 2007 vom Erbe der amerikanischen Abstraktion beeinflusst wurde, verbindet in seinem Werk europäische Sensibilität mit der expressiven Freiheit der amerikanischen Nachkriegsmalerei.
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