Ancart combines figuration and abstraction, discovering unexpected poetic moments in natural landscapes and built environments. Untitled is a vibrant work distinguished by subtle variations in color and texture, depicting tree motifs in oil stick and pencil on canvas.

about artist:

Harold Ancart was born in Brussels in 1980 and received a Master of Arts degree from the École nationale supérieure des arts visuels de La Cambre in 2007. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

In 2021, David Zwirner Paris presented Harold Ancart: La Grande Profondeur. In 2020, David Zwirner held Harold Ancart: Traveling Light at its 525 and 533 West 19th Street galleries in New York, while David Zwirner Online presented Harold Ancart: Pools. In 2018, its London gallery hosted a solo exhibition of his new work. In 2023, he joined Gagosian and held the solo exhibition Paintings.

In 2019–2020, Public Art Fund presented Harold Ancart: Subliminal Standard in Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza Park. Ancart also held the solo exhibition Harold Ancart: There Is No There There at the Menil Collection in Houston in 2016. His solo and group exhibitions worldwide include S.M.A.K. in Ghent (2019), Centre Pompidou-Metz in France (2018), Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2017), Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2013), and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels (2012).

The artist’s work is held in the permanent collections of numerous institutions around the world, including Fondation Beyeler, Basel; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Lenbachhaus, Munich; the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; the Menil Collection, Houston; the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Poster:

Publication date: 2023

Size: 91.4 × 60.9 cm

Original work: