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HAROLD ANCART(né en 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>
Sans titreRéalisé en 2015112 x 80 pouces(284,48 x 203,2 cm) crayon à l'huile et crayon sur toile montée sur bois, dans un cadre choisi par l'artiste
Provenance
CLEARING, New York
Collection privée, acquise lors de la vente susmentionnée, 2015
Sotheby's, New York, 12 octobre 2023, lot 14
Collection privée, acquise lors de la vente susmentionnée
L’œuvre Sans titre (2015) d’Harold Ancart reflète l’approche poétique de l’artiste face au paysage et à la mémoire ; elle a été créée à la suite de son voyage transformateur à travers les États-Unis en 2014. Au cours de ce périple, Ancart a transformé sa voiture en atelier mobile, s’arrêtant spontanément pour esquisser et immortaliser des impressions fugaces de l’environnement naturel. Ces observations ont donné naissance à une nouvelle série d’œuvres qui magnifiaient et abstraient des moments éphémères du paysage, inspirant finalement sa première grande exposition solo institutionnelle à la Menil Collection de Houston en 2016.





Dans ce tableau, une plante lumineuse et stylisée se détache sur un fond noir profond, ses feuilles allongées rendues dans des verts, des jaunes et des rouges radieux qui semblent briller dans l’obscurité. La composition allie clarté graphique et spontanéité expressive : des traces gestuelles et des éclaboussures de couleur gravitent autour de la forme centrale comme des fragments de lumière ou du pollen en suspension. En isolant et en agrandissant un seul sujet botanique, Ancart transforme une rencontre naturelle éphémère en une image monumentale qui semble à la fois intime et cosmique.


 


L’imagerie végétale est restée un motif récurrent tout au long de la pratique d’Ancart, réapparaissant dans des expositions ultérieures, notamment lors de sa présentation en 2022–2023 chez Gagosian. Formé en Belgique puis influencé par l’héritage de l’abstraction américaine après s’être installé à New York en 2007, le travail d’Ancart fusionne une sensibilité européenne avec la liberté expressive de la peinture américaine d’après-guerre.
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