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JACK WHITTEN | Special Checking
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 USD
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Description
- Jack Whitten
- Special Checking
- signed, titled and dated 1974 on the reverse
- acrylic on canvas with rope collage
- 54 1/8 by 95 7/8 in. 137.5 by 243.5 cm.
Provenance
Verrières-Le-Buisson, Paris, 26 April 1992, Lot 212
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jack Whitten, August - September 1974, illustrated on the cover of the exhibition catalogue
Catalogue Note
"The difference is that the first human who rendered a figure—abstract or representational—did so on a ground that was a ready-made found in nature. My ground is not a ready-made...The slab I create is a ground. It is a concrete statement about matter, the same as a stone fragment, a piece of skin from an animal, a bark from a tree, or a cave wall. Once I make it and put my mark on it then I can apply any variety of subjects or symbols as I desire."Jack Whitten