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Wolfgang Laib
German, born 1950
1983
A spare pencil-and-oil drawing in which faintly sketched mountain shapes and repeated tiny triangles are punctuated by a single amber oil mark, attempting to render landscape as a quiet, ritualized notation.
The work feels like a wide, hushed page of air—barely visible graphite peaks and rows of tiny triangular marks sit in the white expanse while your eye is irresistibly pulled to the warm, textured stain at the summit of the largest peak.
By reducing topography to whisper-thin lines and one concentrated color, Laib aligns with a late‑20th‑century minimalist and meditative impulse that makes small gestures and natural tones into objects of contemplation and memory.
Medium
Oil and pencil on paper
Dimensions
35 3/8 x 24 3/4" (90.5 x 62.9 cm).
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Credit
Gift of Sarah-Ann and Werner H. Kramarsky
Accession
297.2000
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