Lot 230
  • 230

JOHN BALDESSARI | Prima Facie (Fifth State): Gentle Butterfly/Grassy Fields

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • John Baldessari
  • Prima Facie (Fifth State): Gentle Butterfly/Grassy Fields
  • archival pigment print on Epson Ultra Smooth Fine Art paper mounted on museum board, in two parts
  • each: 76 by 121 cm. 29 7/8 by 47 5/8 in.
  • Executed in 2006.

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Sprüth Magers, Munich
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Very close inspection reveals some frame rubbing to the top left hand corner of the bottom element and a few tiny specks of black media, which look to be original, also to the bottom element.
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Catalogue Note

"I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas? And then I also had a parallel interest in photography… I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both” (John Baldessari in conversation with David Salle, in: Interview Magazine, 9 October 2013, online). 

This work will be included in the forthcoming Volume 5 of the Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné.