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The Guiding Light
2021 · Oil stick and graphite pencil on canvas, artist's frame
8 ft. 3 1/2 in. × 11 ft. 5 1/2 in. (252.7 × 349.3 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Harold Ancart
1980⚠
WA-00000833
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None documented
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3
Works in Collection
44
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11
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60%
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- NationalityWikidata + Artsy+1· 92%✓
- LocationArtsy + Wikidata+1· 85%✓
- Birth yearArtsy + Gallery Gagosian· 92%✓
- Death yearGallery Gagosian· 80%✓
- DeceasedGallery Gagosian· 80%✓
- Primary mediumWikidata· 92%
Source Registry (2)
- Hauser-WirthTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- GagosianTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
About
Why this artist matters now
Harold Ancart works in oil stick and pencil on canvas, creating gestural abstractions that oscillate between landscape suggestion and pure mark-making. His practice extends to sculptural installations and drawings that interrogate the relationship between natural and built environments. Based in Brussels and represented by Gagosian, Ancart's layered compositions resist fixed figuration, instead accumulating traces of movement and erasure across the picture plane.
Source: Hauser Wirth · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago
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- Whitney2 published
- The Met1 published
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In collection
Whitney Museum of American Art
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