Lot 197
  • 197

John Baldessari

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • John Baldessari
  • Stairs Up (With Void)
  • vinyl on black and white photographs, in three parts 
  • overall: 246.4 by 156.2cm.; 97 by 61 1/2 in.
  • Executed in 1986.

Provenance

Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1986

Exhibited

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofiá; Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain; Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio González, John Baldessari: Not Even So, 1989
Chicago, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Toward the Future: Contemporary Art in Context, 1990

Condition

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate although the overall tonality is more contrasted in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. There is a superficial layer of dust caught between the work and the plexiglass. There are some minor media accretions in places, which appear to be removable with a soft cloth.
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