at the back: signature

PROVENANCE
Acquired by the current owner from a private collection in New York in approx. 1987.
Private collection, Milan

EXHIBITIONS
Michael Goldberg. Works from 1957 to 2007, Contemporary Art Research Center, Taranto, 25 November 2023 - 20 January 2024 (p. 20)

BIBLIOGRAPHY
M. Goldberg, G. Tagliaferro, A. Zanchetta, Michael Goldberg. Works from 1957 to 2007, Taranto 2023, p. 20 (in which the work is dated 1957-58)

Goldberg's work is characterized by only one constant: agile and improvisational reinvention.
While remaining deeply committed to abstraction, over the course of his long career Goldberg has reconceptualized the visual, aesthetic, and material boundaries of abstract painting.
This work is emblematic of the definition that Goldberg himself gave of the emotional connotation of his art, in an interview with David Shapiro. "Energy is the visual speed of the hand".
Perfect synthesis of Abstract Expressionist painting.