267: PETER HALLEY, Core < Editions & Works on Paper, 18 December 2024 < Auctions

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18 December 2024

Editions & Works on Paper

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Peter Halley b.1953
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Core

1991
screenprint and lithograph in colors image: 24 h × 33⅞ w in (61 × 86 cm) sight: 25¼ h × 34⅞ w in (64 × 89 cm)

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result: $882

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Signed and numbered to lower margin ‘28/50 Peter Halley’. This work is number 28 from the edition of 50 printed by Alexander Heinrici and The Spring Street Workshop, New York and published by Schellmann and Pace Editions, Inc., New York.

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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.”