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Meditation on the Drifting Stars 1962–63 Oil on linen, 95 1/2 x 79 in. (242.6 x 200.7 cm) – The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation

Meditation on the Drifting Stars

1962–63
Oil on linen, 95 ½ x 79 in.
(242.6 x 200.7 cm)

Currently featured in the traveling exhibition The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945 organized by the Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany, this 1962-63 canvas is one of Pousette-Dart’s most mysteriously breathtaking paintings.

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Additional Images
  • Installation view, Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting | Light | Space, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2018. – The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation
    Installation view, Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting | Light | Space, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2018.

    Installation view, Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting | Light | Space, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2018.

  • Installation view, The Shape of Freedom: International: International Abstraction after 1945, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany, 2022. – The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation
    Installation view, The Shape of Freedom: International: International Abstraction after 1945, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany, 2022.

    Installation view, The Shape of Freedom: International: International Abstraction after 1945, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany, 2022.

  • Dr. Anne Collins Goodyear with visitors to the exhibition Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting | Light | Space, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2018. – The Richard Pousette-Dart Foundation
    Dr. Anne Collins Goodyear with visitors to the exhibition Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting | Light | Space, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2018.

    Dr. Anne Collins Goodyear with visitors to the exhibition Richard Pousette-Dart: Painting | Light | Space, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2018.