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鈥� ..Completed in 1960, these rarely exhibited works on paper were largely unseen during Held's lifetime and offer a new perspective on the artist鈥檚 attempts to advance ideas of form and space in contemporary... 鈥�

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Van Doren Waxter, 73rd Street

鈥� ..鈥淥ne of the profound powers of the artist is that he can will, or choose, to become anything he wills or chooses,鈥� Held said in 1989... 鈥�

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Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums

鈥� ..While compositions were still worked out on the canvas, often in several iterations, Held鈥檚 soft-edged charcoal was replaced by the sharply defined contours of uniformly painted forms, their thick black... 鈥�

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Cheim & Read

鈥� ..Immense and graphic, the paintings exchange Ab-Ex鈥檚 gesture for hard-edged, brightly-colored, geometric forms 鈥� their flattened, two-dimensional contours either pruned by the constraints of the canvas... 鈥�

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Cheim & Read

鈥� ..Held鈥檚 visions offer an unmoored vantage point, conceiving of perspectives that are illusive and imaginary through the manipulation of basic geometric objects within often contradictory and converging... 鈥�

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Van Doren Waxter, 73rd Street