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Christopher Wool
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Description
- Christopher Wool
- Untitled (P-15)
- signed, titled and dated '86 on the reverse
- alkyd on aluminum and steel
- 72 by 48 in. 182.9 by 121.9 cm.
- Executed in 1986.
Provenance
Luhring Augustine, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Exhibited
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art; Kunsthalle Basel, Christopher Wool, July 1998 - January 1999, p. 11, illustrated
Condition
This work is in very good condition. There is scattered light rubbing and evidence of wear around the edges. There is a minute nick in the surface, located approximately 5 ½ inches. from the top edge and 20 inches. from the right edge. Otherwise, there are no condition problems with this work.
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In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
"Wool's [floral] roller paintings... are blatantly contradictory; tense on the surface, they exceed and bypass any ideological position. Modernism's classical constructions of cool abstraction and Modernism's baroque decorative compositions are forced here into an uneasy co-conspiracy, made to lie together uncomfortably, with the dangerous certainty of a liaison." - Bruce W. Ferguson ("Patterns of Intern", Artforum, No. 20, September 1991, p. 96)