ORIGINAL CASEIN BY WORLD FAMOUS ARTIST DOUGLAS HUEBLER

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YOU ARE BIDDING ON AN ORIGINAL FRAMED PAINTING BY WORLD FAMOUS ARTIST DOUGLAS HUEBLER . HIS WORKS ARE IN MOMA , THE TATE AND NUMEROUS OTHER MUSEUMS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS . THIS IS AN EARLY WORK DATED 1959 . THE ARTWORK ITSELF MEASURES APPROXIMATELY 18" X 12 1/2" AND 21" X 26" FRAMED . IT IS TITLED: ABSTRACT COMPOSITION . THERE ARE SEVERAL GALLERY LABELS ON THE BACK . THE MOST RECENT ONE IS FROM THE RALLS COLLECTION IN WASHINGTON D. C. HUEBLER'S WORKS TYPICALLY SELL FROM $3,000.00 ON UP . I AM PLACING A SMALL AMOUNT ON THIS AND HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT SMART E-BAYERS WILL KNOW A BARGAIN WHEN THEY SEE IT ! Life and career Huebler grew up on a farm in Michigan during the Depression, and at 17, he enlisted in the Marines to fight in World War II. Stationed in the West Pacific, his excellent artistic eye (a childhood nickname was Hawkeye) earned him the duty of flying on air missions to search out enemy camps camouflaged in the island topography. After the war, funded by the GI Bill, Huebler earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Michigan, and later went on to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. After working for several years as a commercial art illustrator in New York, he set out to establish himself as a serious artist.In the late 1950s and early '60s, Huebler made abstract paintings and geometric Formica sculptures, the latter of which aligned him early on with the Minimalist movement. In 1969, he participated, with Joseph Kosuth, Robert Barry and Lawrence Weiner, in a landmark exhibition of conceptual art curated by Seth Siegelaub. Many consider these artists the pioneers of the conceptual art movement. As part of the show, Huebler issued one of his most famous statements: "The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more." He then started producing works in numerous media often involving documentary photography , maps and text to explore social environments and the effect of passing time on objects. The basic idea behind conceptual art is that the ideas, the concepts behind the work, are more important than the work and the execution of the work itself. This led many artists, Yoko Ono , for example, to not even actually make the art, but rather leave a set of instructions for the viewer . A representative example of Huebler's early work is Duration Piece #5, 1969, a series of ten black & white photographs with accompanying text; to document the piece, Huebler stood in Central Park and, each time he heard a bird call, he pointed his camera in the direction of the call and shot a photograph. In 1971, he began "Variable Piece #70 (In Process) Global," for which he proposed his intention "to photographically document the existence of everyone alive." In the 1980s and '90s, Huebler began incorporating painting into his conceptual art pieces, creating a persona he called "the Great Corrector," who took works by masters like Picasso, Matisse, Breugel and Hieronymus Bosch and attempted to "make them better." Best known for his provocative ideas and his tongue-in-cheek sense of humor, Huebler's work continues influencing young artists.Huebler's academic career spanned more than forty years; he taught art at Bradford College in Massachusetts, and at Harvard, and served for ten years as dean of the art school at California Institute of Arts . In 1989, he retired to his beloved Cape Cod, where he died in 1997. He is survived by his first wife, Mary Brock, and their children, Dorne, Darcy and Dana, and his second wife, Stephani Weinschel Miner, and their daughter, Kate. Retrieved from " /wiki/Douglas_Huebler " BEST OF LUCK BIDDING. PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME WITH ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. KEYWORDS: Eames Pollack Chagall Art Deco sculpture oil watercolor Klee read more

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