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Jules Olitski, "Irkutsk Dawn" acrylic emulsion on canvas, 1970-71. Signed, titled, and dated en verso, "Jules Olitski Irkutsk Dawn 1970-71 3rd Years". Canvas: 80.5"H x 180.5"W; Frame: 81.5"H x 181.5"W. Provenance: M. Knoedler & Co., Inc, NY; Acquired from the above in February 1982; Estate of Mary Jo Vaughn Rauscher, Dallas, TX. Exhibited: Whitney Museum of American Art Jan 25-March 19 1972, No. 85; Dallas Central Library, April 1984-April 1986. Note: Jules Olitski (American 1922-2007). Olitski's spray gun paintings are perhaps the most recognizable of his oeuvre. "Sprayed paint is the antithesis of the sculptural. It suggest mists and atmosphere and optical, illusionistic pictorial space (we see fogs by seeing into them)". In, "Irkutsk Dawn", the artist adjusts our view of the picture by drawing the left margin. With this he, "exploits the fact that the tension and implied space across an empty picture surface isn't equal throughout, that the surface becomes more literally flat and immediate as it approaches an edge." ("Jules Olitski and The Tradition of Oil Painting", Terry Fenton; 1979).