01 Nov
Project Description
Description: Watercolour and graphite on paper, 25.4 x 38.1 cm. Signed 'Mark Innerst' (lower right)Catalogue note: Throughout his career, Mark Innerst has transformed the urban landscape, investing it with his unique kind of deeply resonant beauty, complexity and luminosity. Cities like New York and Philadelphia appear alternately majestic, immense, and serene, as streetscapes morph into a series of skyward-shooting lines or stacked, layered blocks of colour. Vanishing points slip off-centre, displaced by buildings that curve overhead or sweep downward to street level, where human activity is reduced to blurs of light and movement. Innerst's work has been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad. His work is in numerous public collections in New York including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Albright Knox Museum. The artist lives and works in Philadelphia and Cape May.
Provenance: Acquired from Christie’s, Sale 16334, Lot 697, Invoice no. DB18023089. 3rd Annual Benefit Auction for The Drawing Centre, New York; courtesy of the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery, 12 December 2006, lot 8 | Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Catalogue no.: 2018P0133-MI
