Jackie Wullschläger selects Hedda Sterne for the FT’s Critics’ Choice

'Motion and lights were always Sterne's subjects; now the sense of speed animating her "New York" paintings yielded to the meditative, impressive series Vertical-Horizontals, featuring luminous striated lines and quivering uneven bands. They are the focus of this first UK show…' 

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Image: Hedda Sterne, Vertical Horizontal #6, 1963
Oil on canvas
84.5 x 63.5 cm
33 1/4 x 25 in
© The Hedda Sterne Foundation Inc, ARS, NY and DACS, London 2019
Courtesy Van Doren Waxter and Victoria Miro

 
January 25 2020