Check out Whitney’s spontaneous design
According to Munich saleroom Ketterer, the 3ft 4in (1.02m) square painting N. O. 9th . Ward, which is part of the sale on December 9, is the first work by the American artist Stanley Whitney (b.1946) ever to be offered at a German auction.
Since the 1970s, Whitney’s oeuvre has been dominated by compositions with grids of brightly colour…