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Medium: oil on masonite relief

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Dimensions: 24 h x 24 w inches

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Provenance: Mrs. Helen Benjamin, New York | Sothebys New York, May 1996, lot 90

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Notes: Burgoyne Diller is considered the preeminent American practitioner of Mondrian's neo-Plasticism. Exhibited in "Burgoyne Diller" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1990, the present lot is thought to be a precursor of the 1960s American Minimalist art movement. The profoundly abbreviated expression is pioneering in its ultimate break with Mondrian. The departure from Mondrian is two-fold. First, Diller utilizes symmetry as opposed to asymmetry, a central tenet in the work of minimalists Donald Judd and Carl Andre. The second part of Diller's evolution is the denial of the traditional red/yellow/blue palette in favor of black, a conclusion he shared with Ad Reinhart. Signed and dated verso. Exhibited: Galerie Chalette, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Washburn Gallery, New York Literature: Burgoyne Diller, Haskell, pg. 154, illustrated.