Divination ou Hommage à Arthur Clarke
Divination, or Homage to Arthur Clarke and Stanley Kubrick
- Date
- 1968–1969
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 200 × 300 cm
- Period
- Cosmic, 1968 — 1971
- Reference
- cat. 24
Painted directly out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, which he saw on release and returned to repeatedly.
The estate’s catalogue raisonné is the authority on titles, dimensions and authenticity — see ljuba.fr.
Cosmic · 1968 — 1971
The scale changes and so does the light. Bodies come apart into clouds of luminous particles suspended in deep space. 2001: A Space Odyssey is the acknowledged provocation behind Divination (1968–69); the CNAC bought the first monumental canvas out of the Salon de Mai.
Also from this period