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Cleve Gray (1918–2004) "Suntrack" Acrylic on Canvas 1987

Name: Cleve Gray (1918–2004) "Suntrack" Acrylic on Canvas 1987
Brand: Cleve Gray
Rating: 5 (30 reviews)

$45,000

£34,361.43

€41,179.19

CA$64,780.97

A$66,792.81

CHF 37,659.53

MX$854,903.11

NOK 434,209.41

SEK 454,157.55

DKK 307,920.15

About the Item

Cleve Gray (1918–2004), "Suntrack" Acrylic on Canvas - Dated 1987 Frame: 81" x 51", sight: 80" x 50". Radiant and vigorously lyrical, *Suntrack* is a monumental canvas by the American painter Cleve Gray (1918–2004), a key figure in post-war abstraction whose work fuses Abstract Expressionist gesture with the meditative clarity of Color Field painting and an abiding interest in East Asian calligraphy. Spanning nearly seven feet across (frame: 81" x 51"; sight: 80" x 50"), the painting establishes a saturated, lemon-to-saffron ground over which Gray draws a sweeping constellation of marks—looping ribbons of slate blue and pale celadon, plum and aubergine wedges, and smoky swathes of white—all cinched by a decisive armature of charcoal-black brushwork. The result is a composition that feels at once expansive and concentrated: energy flares outward from the central band of activity, while translucent veils of color drift and dissolve into the luminous field like heat mirage on sun-struck air. Gray’s painterly language is on full display here. He favors broad, loaded strokes and dragged passages that catch the tooth of the canvas, leaving a tactile record of speed and pressure. In places the pigment is scumbled to a dry whisper; elsewhere it pools and stains, allowing the yellow ground to glow through and modulate the overlying gesture. The central dark scaffold behaves almost like notation—calligraphic, rhythmic, and slightly asymmetric—anchoring the picture while allowing the lighter ribbons to circulate with musical freedom. The title *Suntrack* underscores this sensation: the dark trajectory reads as the path of the sun across an atmosphere that brightens and dims around it, the peripheral skeins suggesting refractions, halos, and afterimages. Executed in 1987, the work belongs to Gray’s mature period, when his canvases grew both in scale and in chromatic daring. By this point he had synthesized decades of looking—from early encounters with Léger and Braque in wartime Paris to his long engagement with Chinese and Japanese ink traditions—into a personal idiom that prized clarity of structure, spiritual calm, and the viewer’s immersive experience. The palette here is characteristically bold yet finely tuned: the yellow ground carries enough warmth to register as light rather than mere color, while the cool blues temper the heat and the purples lend a ceremonial gravity. The black, never dead, is brushed thinly enough to breathe, opening the composition rather than closing it down. The reverse of the canvas is inscribed by the artist, “Gray – ’87 / *Suntrack* / 50 x 80 / acrylic,” confirming title, date, medium, and dimensions and providing the direct artist’s hand so often sought by collectors of Gray’s work. The painting is presented in a simple contemporary frame that sets off the field without intruding upon it, allowing the surface to carry its full atmospheric charge. *Suntrack* epitomizes Gray at his most confident and lucid: an orchestration of light, gesture, and space that invites prolonged viewing. Standing before the work, one feels less that the image represents the sun’s passage than that it enacts it—time laid down as paint, an arc traced through air and mind.

Creator:
Cleve Gray (Artist)
Dimensions:
Height: 50 in (127 cm)Width: 80 in (203.2 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
Style:
Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Acrylic,Canvas
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
Late 20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1987
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Great vintage condition. No losses or damage to canvas. Frame has some wear commensurate with age and use.
Seller Location:
Atlanta, GA
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU7838246947972

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