Peter Sacks

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South African | 1950

Peter Sacks is a South African Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1950. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Sperone Westwater have featured Peter Sacks's work in the past.Peter Sacks's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 10,000 USD to 60,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2020 the record price for this artist at auction is 60,000 USD for AFTERMATH 12, sold at The Potomack Company in 2020. Peter Sacks has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for The Brooklyn Rail in April 2024.

At Auction

Notable Lots

Treaty 2 ,2003

By Peter Sacks

CODEX SERIES? ,1950

By Peter Sacks

DRIFT ,2006

By Peter Sacks

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Recent Auction Results

"Migration 14" ,2008

By Peter Sacks

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CODEX SERIES? ,1950

By Peter Sacks

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CODEX SERIES? ,1950

By Peter Sacks

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Past Exhibitions

Peter Sacks: For the Record

Sperone Westwater

Lower East Side | New York | USA

Mar 01,2024 - Apr 20,2024

Peter Sacks: Resistance

The Rose Art Museum

Waltham | Massachusetts | USA

Aug 25,2022 - Dec 30,2022

Peter Sacks: Above Our Lands

Sperone Westwater

Lower East Side | New York | USA

Sep 08,2022 - Oct 29,2022

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Articles

The Brooklyn Rail 02/04/2024

Peter Sacks鈥檚 latest paintings are forthright, absorbing, memorable. This is partly due to their being incredibly tactile.

The Brooklyn Rail 02/04/2024

Stately, totemic, physical: Peter Sacks鈥檚 densely layered paintings exalt in juxtapositions of texture and form, chaos and cohesion.

ArtDaily 10/12/2022

Peter Sacks: Resistance, the artist鈥檚 first solo museum show, is currently bieng presented by the Rose Art Museum since August 25, and will end at the end of this month on December 30th, 2022.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Each work by Sacks is a striking accretion of material, meaning, and emotion... 鈥�
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Marlborough, New York (Uptown)

鈥� ..Sacks鈥� approach to painting utilises intimate material residues of life and often holds a personal significance 鈥� textiles, texts, and traces of objects鈥攖ransforming them into active fields of energy,... 鈥�
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Marlborough, London

鈥� ..Sacks is preoccupied with forced migration, displacement and diaspora, concepts physically manifested in the dynamic fluidity of his paintings... 鈥�
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Marlborough, London

鈥� ..Often one will find text typed onto fabric by the artist using a manual typewriter visible just beneath the final surface of a canvas... 鈥�
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Marlborough, New York (Uptown)

鈥� ..Sacks has referred to his intensive process of discovery and layering as 鈥渆xcavating in reverse.鈥� ... 鈥�
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Marlborough, New York (Uptown)