Post War & Contemporary Art 
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Post War & Contemporary Art 
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Warren Rohrer 1927–2005

Field: Language 10 (Babel)

1991
oil on linen 72¼ h × 72¼ w in (184 × 184 cm)
estimate: $20,000–30,000
result: $17,640
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Signed, titled and dated to verso ‘Field Language 10 (Babel) 1991 W. Rohrer’.
provenance: Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia | Acquired from the previous in 2000, Important Philadelphia Estate
exhibited: Warren Rohrer, 22 June -17 August 2003, Philadelphia Museum of Art | Warren Rohrer: Field Language, 1991, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia

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Fields fallow to their full ripeness

Skin of eggplant, inside and out

Ripples converging on the frog pond

Light, shade, veils, fog, haze, stubble, tassel...

These are the things I look at but they are not my subjects. 

My subject is the STROKE. A color event sets me off. 

From the ground of the canvas to the final layer of

paint I work at maintaining a life of stroke and color

— to make a live painting. 


Warren Rohrer, September 1976

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