Lot 10
  • 10

Richard Lindner

Estimate
30,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • Richard Lindner
  • The Academician (The Poet)
  • signed and dated March 1954
  • oil pastel and ink on paper
  • 28 1/2 by 22 1/2 in.
  • 72.4 by 57.2 cm.

Provenance

Acquired from the arist by Hans and Maria Eisner Lehfeldt
By descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Exhibition circulated by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Jacksonville, MacMurray College (and traveling), Richard Lindner: Works on Paper, November 1966 - March 1968, cat. no. 4
St. Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght; Liège, Musée Saint-Georges, Richard Lindner, May - October 1979, no. 43, p. 56, illustrated in color

Literature

Werner Spies, Richard Lindner: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, Munich, 1999, p. 258, cat. no. 497
Jean-Dominique Rey, "Le carnaval de la mémoire," XXe Siècle, December 1980, p. 95, illustrated in color
Werner Spies, Lindner, Maeght éditeur, 1980, p. 56
Dore Ashton, Richard Lindner, New York, 1970, pl. 49

Condition

The work is in good condition overall. There is discoloration to the sheet at the extreme edges; there is some scattered staining to the sheet; the sheet is hinged verso to the mat along the top edge; framed under glass.
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