Art + Design 
22 February 2022
Art + Design 
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Peter Halley b.1953

Blue Prison

2001
acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, metallic acrylic, pearlescent acrylic, and Roll-a-Tex on canvas 47 h × 44 w × 4 d in (119 × 112 × 10 cm)
estimate: $50,000–70,000
result: $87,500
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Signed and dated to verso ‘Peter Halley 2001’. Sold with certificate of authenticity signed by the artist. LAMA would like to thank the Peter Halley studio for their assistance in cataloguing this work.
provenance: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris | Private Collection, Paris | Private Collection, New York
exhibited: Mixed Pickles, 4 March - 18 April 2017, Felix Ringel Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

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Living in Grid

Peter Halley's Prescient Architectures

Aligned with the neo-conceptual movement of the 1980s, Peter Halley builds his rigorous and sparse geometric abstractions using his own architecture of “prisons,” “cells,” and “conduits” – rectangles and rectangular groupings joined by lines. For Halley, these simple structures reference his grid-inclined predecessors like Josef Albers and, in their beginnings, presciently gestured towards a future defined by electrical systems, digital connectivity, and physical isolation. As Halley reflected, “I was consciously trying to map the space that contemporary life was turning into.”

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