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Toshimitsu Imai, Untitled, 1965,

Mixed Media on Paper,

50 x 65 cm

Courtesy: Louis & Sack

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Ellsworth Kelly, Black over Yellow, 1964–65,

From Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs,

Composition: 22 7/16 x 15 9/16" (57 x 39.5 cm),

Sheet: 35 1/4 x 23 7/16" (89.5 x 59.5 cm).

Courtesy: MoMA

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Mavis Pusey, “Frozen Vibration” (1968),

Screenprint, 26 3/8 x 33 5/16 inches,

Private collection. ©Estate of Mavis Pusey.

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Arnaldo Pomodoro (23 June 1926 – 22 June 2025)

Mr Pomodoro was an Italian sculptor. His signature works are Sphere within sphere  (Sfera con Sfera), bronze spheres with smooth exterior and broken interiors.

In addition to his spheres, he designed theatrical sets, land projects and machines. 

Images: Sfera con sfera, 1995-97, Bronze, 35 h × 31½ w × 31½ d in (89 × 80 × 80 cm)

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Alexander Calder - Hommage to Mondrian, 1965,

gouache and ink on paper, 107.5 × 75 cm

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Sam Francis, "Untitled" (Carpet)

Machine-woven wool7'11" × 5'6" in (241 × 169 cm)

This work is from the incomplete edition of 100 published by Arterior Collection, Vorwerk, Germany. Due to changes in the company, the full edition was never completed.

This work is registered in the Sam Francis Online Catalogue Raisonné as number SFEPH.9A.

Literature: International Design Yearbook, Vol. 8, 1993, Sipek, pg. 163

Courtesy: Wright20

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Beate Wheeler, Untitled (1972),

Oil on canvas, 41 x 34 inches,

Image courtesy Moss Galleries

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Peter Mendelsund, Untitled painting (c. 2020),

Acrylic, pencil, dirt, rainwater

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Günther Uecker (1930-03-13 - 2025-06-10)

Günther Uecker was a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.

Uecker began his artistic education in 1949 when he took up studies at Wismar. He then went to the art school in Berlin-Weißensee and in 1955 to Düsseldorf, where he studied under Otto Pankok at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

In 1960, Uecker met the group ZERO with Heinz Mack and Otto Piene, artists who propagated a new beginning of art in opposition to the German Informel. The three artist joined a studio at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1962 and installed a ‘Salon de Lumière’ at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

During these years, Uecker focused on the medium of light, studying optical phenomena, and produced a series of structures that actively integrated the viewer and played with his visual process by kinetic or manual interference.

Since 1966, after the group ZERO dissolved and a last joint exhibition, Uecker increasingly used nails as an artistic means of expression. At the beginning of the 1960s he began hammering nails into pieces of furniture, musical instruments and household objects, and then he began combining nails with the theme of light and with the illusion of movement.

Light and electricity continued to be one of the main subjects and natural materials such as sand and water were included in his installations, resulting in an interaction of the different elements to create a sensation of light, space, movement and time.

From 1974 Uecker taught at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

With Otto Piene, Heinz Mack and Mattijs Visser he founded in 2008 the international ZERO foundation. The foundation has the complete ZERO archives from three Düsseldorfer artists as well as documents and photos from other related artists.

Uecker’s work can be found in the collections of major institutions worldwide, among them: the ZERO foundation and Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Courtauld Institute of Art, (London); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

© GUENTHER UECKER, by SIAE 2025

Untitled, 2000, Lithograph, 105,5 x 75 cm. Courtesy: https://shelter-foundation.org/en/

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Jan Schoonhoven, "Twee Keer" 1958,

Oil on panel, 54.6 x 36.7 cm.

Courtesy: Christie's

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Jean Degottex, "Horsphère BR (III)," 1968,

Oil and acrylic on cardboard mounted on stretcher,

65.3 x 50 cm.

Courtesy: Christie's

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Xiyao Wang, "Battement Fondu No. 3," 2024,

Oil pencil and charcoal on canvas,

190 cm x 300 cm.

Courtesy: Affenfaust Galerie

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Heinz Mack, Dynamische Struktur Weiß auf Schwarz, 1960,

Synthetic resin on Canvas,

100,4 x 96,0 cm

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Xinyi Liu, '22 Scar, 2022,

36.5 x 44 in.

Courtesy:

A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 www.airgallery.org

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Paul Van Hoeydonck (October 8, 1925 -  May 3, 2025)

Paul Van Hoeydonck was a Belgian sculptor and painter. Van Hoeydonck was best known for his 1971 sculpture Fallen Astronaut, which commemorated fallen astronauts and was placed on the Moon by the Apollo 15 crew, where it remains today.

"Composition," 1960, Work on Paper, Drawings, 54 x 73 cm

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Arc ZERO: Eclipse, Godeok-I Park, Gangdong-gu, Seoul,

Courtesy: James Tapscott / Studio JT

The work, a half-ring of polished stainless steel suspended over a custom-built infinity reflecting pool, creates an otherworldly interplay of light, mist, and water, transforming the rooftop garden of a mixed-use development into a space of sublime contemplation.

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Yuko Nasak, 'Untitled,' 1964,

Synthetic paint, plaster and glue on cotton, mounted on wooden board,

Dimensions: 1817 x 919 mm.

Courtesy: Tate