Mary Lovelace O'Neal
The Four Cardinal Points Are Three: North and South, circa 1970's
lampblack pigment, masking tape and pastel on unstretched canvas
85 1/4 x 144 1/2 in (216.5 x 367 cm)
Used by Permission of the Estate of Mary Lovelace O’Neal
This painting takes it title from a line from the poem "Altazor, a Voyage in a Parachute: Poem in VII Cantos" (1931) by the Chilean avant-garde poet Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948.)
This painting takes it title from a line from the poem "Altazor, a Voyage in a Parachute: Poem in VII Cantos" (1931) by the Chilean avant-garde poet Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948.)
Provenance
From the Artist's' StudioExhibitions
Mary Lovelace O’Neal: Blacker Than a Hundred Midnights Down in a Cypress Swamp, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, April 18–August 2, 2026.George C. Longfish and Mary L. O’Neal: Works on Canvas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, May 11–June 24, 1979.
Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, December 7, 2002–February 9, 2003.
Mary Lovelace O’Neal: Chasing Down the Image, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, NY, February 6–March 21, 2020.