Provenance: Luz Gallery Private Collection, USA

ABOUT THE WORK

In this work, Gus Albor brings to bear upon the field of black a certain weight and density. Tell-tale traces of colors, unencumbered by the need to make their presence known, tone down the extreme severity of black and white. In Albors’ painting, black is all-consuming. It assumes the gravity of reflections and memories, capable of picking up occasional glints of colors at the end of the thin flash of white cutting vertically across the work.