Lot 283
  • 283

Gregory Amenoff

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • Gregory Amenoff
  • Bayou Teche
  • signed, titled and dated 4-5/80 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 68 by 78 in. 172.7 by 198 cm.

Provenance

Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Nielsen Gallery, Boston
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1980

Exhibited

Boston, Nielsen Gallery, Gregory Amenoff, September 1980
Purchase, State University of New York, Neuberger Museum, Seven Artists, October 1980 - January 1981
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1981 Whitney Biennial, January - April 1981, illustrated
 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, February - April 1982
Waterville, Maine, Colby College Museum of Art, Landscape and Abstract Art: A Continuing Dialogue, March 1985
Lincoln, Massachusetts, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park; Tampa Museum of Art; West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art; Greenville, North Carolina, East Carolina University, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, Gregory Amenoff: Works on Paper, 1975-1992, April 1993 - March 1994

Literature

William Corbett, "Gregory Amenoff,"Arts Magazine, vol. 55, no. 1, September 1980, p. 17, illustrated
Kenneth Baker, "Gregory Amenoff and the Function of Painting," The Boston Phoenix, section 3, September 16, 1980, pp.12, 14
Sara Wright, "Gallery Beat," The Real Paper, September 25, 1980, n.p.
Robert Taylor, "Traditional Heroics, and Modern Fairy Tales," The Boston Globe, September 9, 1980, p. 25
Roberta Smith, "Biennial Blues," Art in America, vol. 69, no. 4, April 1981, p. 92

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas is unlined. There is some very light surface dust in the areas of heavy impasto. There is some light wear at the extreme corners and turning edges. Framed.
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