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Robert Cottingham
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description
- Robert Cottingham
- Radio City Deli
- signed, titled and dated 1995 on the reverse
- oil on canvas
- 60 by 60 in. 152.4 by 152.4 cm.
Provenance
Forum Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Acquired by the present owner from the above
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Pensler Galleries, Robert Cottingham: Recent Paintings & Works on Paper, November - December 1998, n.p., illustrated in color
Catalogue Note
"Commercial signs are amazing. Here are these elaborate, monumental structures designed solely to tell you that this is where you can buy a hamburger or pack of cigarettes.... All that effort, all the pomposity just to sell you something. And yet, they are an heroic attempt by someone to leave his mark.... As an artist, I use the configurations as the basis for constructing a painting.... If the final work can be read on both levels—as a formal painting...and at the same time as a depiction of a sign—the work approaches success." - Robert Cottingham