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Lot 546
  • 546

Julian Schnabel

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Description

  • Julian Schnabel
  • The Guests At My Uncle George's Funeral
  • oil on cast aluminum
  • 84 1/2 by 72 3/4 in. 214.6 by 184.8 cm.
  • Executed in 1984.

Provenance

Pace Gallery, New York
The Smorgon Collection of Contemporary Art
Sotheby's, New York, February 17, 1999 Lot 293
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum; Las Vegas, Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Nevada; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; Fort Wayne Museum of Art; Rockford Art Museum; Boise Gallery of Art; Tucson Museum of Art, The Smorgon Family Collection of Contemporary Art, 1985, no. 20, p. 54, illustrated in color

Catalogue Note

"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves.  Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort." (Julian Schnabel)