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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

John Baldessari

Duck/Bird/Midget/Man (in Top Hat and Cane)

Auction Closed

November 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

John Baldessari

1931 - 2020


Duck/Bird/Midget/Man (in Top Hat and Cane)

oil tint and vinyl on black and white photographs, in 4 artist's frames

overall: 72½ by 71¼ in.

184.2 by 181 cm.

Executed in 1988.

Sonnabend Gallery, New Yok
Lisson Gallery, London
Acquired from the above in May 1988 by the present owner 
London, Lisson Gallery, John Baldessari, May - June 1988
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Paint and Painted: Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection, May 1993 - April 1995
Harrisburg, Susquehanna Art Museum, The Emerging Image: Selected Contemporary Photography, March - May 1999
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Shared Vision: Photographs from the Collections of Emily Fisher Landau and Anne E. and M. Anthony Fisher, October 1998 - November 1999
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Zoo Story: An Exhibition of Animals in Art - for the Young and the Young at Heart, December 2005 - October 2006
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Imagination Noir, January - April 2009
Patrick Pardo and Robert Dean, eds., John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Three: 1987-1993, New Haven, 2017, no. 1988.26, p. 99, illustrated in color