Lot 2
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Christopher Wool

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 GBP
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Description

  • Christopher Wool
  • Untitled
  • enamel on rice paper
  • 167 by 119.6cm.; 65 3/4 by 47 1/8 in.
  • Executed in 2000.

Provenance

Luhring Augustine, New York

Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Literature

Christopher Wool, 9th Street Run Down, Göttingen 2001, n.p., illustrated in colour

Arléne Bonnant, et al., CAP Collection, Dublin 2005, p. 316, illustrated in colour

Exhibition Catalogue, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Chicago, The Art Insitute of Chicago, Christopher Wool, 2013, p. 148, no. 43, illustrated in colour

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the paper tone tends more towards a cream in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. The sheet is attached verso to the backing board in several places. Close inspection reveals a few minor creases and handling marks in places, which appear to be original.
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Catalogue Note

"A body of work known as the '9th Street Rundown' drawings... functions like a typology of painterly gestures. Notably the works interweave appropriated and original forms without differentiation; some were spontaneously made by the artist himself, but others were lifted directly from illustrations in a guide to abstract painting for the amateur."

Katherine Brinson, 'Trouble is My Business' in: Exhibition Catalogue, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Christopher Wool, 2013, pp. 46-47.