Harold Ankart, known for his depiction of abstract perspectives, joined Gagosian’s roster just a few months after he left David Zwerner, marking a rare case of an artist leaving a huge gallery for another. The artist will be the subject of a solo exhibition at Gagosian’s Gallery New York in 2023.
Ancart, who joined Zwirner in 2018, has produced painted abstracts and concrete sculptures, making subjects from the natural world, such as tReese, seascapes and icebergs in reductive forms.
Born in Brussels and based in New York, Ankert was featured in this year’s edition of the Whitney Biennale. He had his first major showing with an American institution when the Menil Institute of Painting in Houston gave him a solo show in 2016. The exhibition presented a series of 27 works on paper that featured abstract streetscapes and landscapes that Ankart created during a road trip across the United States.
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Prior to joining Zwirner, he first secured representation with CLEARING in Brussels, then later landing deals to work with Xavier Hufkens and David Kordansky Gallery in Los Angeles.
After Ankert joined David Zwirner, the secondary market for his work intensified. In 2019, an oil painting of flowers fetched $1 million at Sotheby’s New York Evening Contemporary Auction, setting a record for the artist.
The record was brought in the same year that Ancart completed a large commission for the General Technical Fund subliminal standardA colorful concrete statue in Cadman Plaza Park in downtown Brooklyn doubles as a handball court. The previous year, he produced another site-specific installation entitled night drawingat the Center Pompidou Metz in France.
Neither Ankert nor a representative in David Zwerner gave a reason for the artist’s departure when the news of this was first reported in March by Artnet. Although unheard of, the transition between excellent dealers is unusual for an artist in the middle of his career on an upward trajectory.
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