Lot 285
  • 285

James Rosenquist

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • James Rosenquist
  • Reflector
  • signed, titled and dated 1982 on the overlap of each panel
  • oil on canvas mounted to panel, in 2 parts
  • Overall: 60 by 144 in. 152.4 by 365.8 cm.

Provenance

Castelli-Feigen-Corcoran Gallery, New York
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago (acquired from the above in 1985)
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2007

Exhibited

Fort Collins, Colorado State University, James Rosenquist at Colorado State University, September - October 1982, cat. no. 39, illustrated
New York, Castelli-Feigen-Corcoran Gallery, James Rosenquist: Reflector - Deflector, November 1982 - January 1983
Denver Art Museum; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Des Moines Art Center; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art; Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, James Rosenquist Paintings 1961-1985, May 1985 - January 1987
Tallahassee, Florida State University Gallery & Museum; University Gallery at Memphis State; Lakeland, Polk Museum of Art, James Rosenquist, March 1987 - November 1988, p. 37, illustrated in color
Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery, Central Hall of Artists, Rosenquist: Moscow 1961-1991, February - March 1991, p. 68, illustrated
Valencia, IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez, Rosenquist, May - August 1991, cat. no. 51, p. 148, illustrated in color
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Bilbao, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Kunsmuseum Wolfsburg, James Rosenquist: A Retrospective, May 2003 - June 2005

Literature

Vivien Raynor, "Art: James Rosenquist," The New York Times, November 26, 1982
David Dalton and James Rosenquist, Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art, New York, 2009, p. 273

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of wear and handling to the edges, resulting in some small losses at the corners. There are some scattered pinpoint accretions visible under raking light and some horizontal abrasions along the bottom edge. Under Ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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