Nikki Haskell | Stay on Track
1964
Medium: oil on canvas
Measures: 48.5 x 34 x 1.5 inches
Signed "Nikki" along the lower right quadrant.
Provenance: Custom-commissioned directly by Haskell's husband for his corporate office. To " keep his team on track"
sourced directly from the private collection/Manhattan estate of Nikki Haskell.
Condition Report: Excellent Vintage Condition. Surface presentation is highly stable across the extensive 48.5-inch canvas grid, retaining sharp structural tension, crisp textural definition within the heavy rail woodgrains, and zero notable historic canvas warping.
Gallery Note: A monumental, highly important early-career masterpiece by Nikki Haskell, serving as a definitive anchor for her mid-1960s fine art production. Commissioned directly by her husband as a visual mandate to keep his executive business team focused and moving forward, this grand-scale work utilizes a stark, dramatic single-point perspective. The viewer is positioned low on the tracks, looking down an infinite, converging railway line flanked by a weathered industrial signal and shifting sand-swept desert banks. he viewer is positioned low on the tracks, looking down an infinite, converging railway line flanked by a weathered industrial signal and shifting sand-swept desert banks. Haskell delivers deep, grounded tones of rich mahogany, charcoal ironwork, and industrial ochre, displaying a technical rigor, structural precision, and narrative weight that marks this as a premier centerpiece of her early works.
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$7,500.00Price
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