Lot 285
  • 285

Juan Gonzalez

Estimate
2,500 - 3,500 USD
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Description

  • Juan Gonzalez
  • Mari in the Shadow Box
  • colored pencil and watercolor on paper, in artist's frame
  • Sheet: 14 1/2 by 23 in. 36.8 by 58.4 cm.
  • Framed: 18 1/2 by 29 1/2 by 4 in. 47 by 74.9 by 10.2 cm.
  • Executed in 1978.

Provenance

Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

University of Southern California, University Galleries; Toledo Art Museum; Denver Art Museum, Reality of Illusions, June 1979 - March 1981
Miami-Dade Community College, Frances Wolfson Art Gallery; Charleston, South Carolina, Gibbes Art Gallery, The Art of Juan Gonzalez, October 1980 - March 1981
New York, Center for Inter-American Relations Art Gallery, Three Contemporary Artists: Huguette Franco, Juan Gonzalez, Miguel Angel Rojas, March - April 1981
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, February - April 1982, p. 23, illustrated in color New York, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Juan Gonzalez, June - July 1982 Framingham, Massachusetts, Danforth Art Museum, New Works, Drawings: Audrey Flack, Juan Gonzalez, Michael Mazur, Philip Pearlstein, Joseph Raffael, Pat Steir, Marjorie Strider, January - March 1987
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Minnesota Museum of Art (and travelling), Cuba-USA: The First Generation, May 1991 - March 1992, p. 88

Literature

Ronny H. Cohen, "The Art of Juan Gonzalez," Arts Magazine, vol. 57, no. 9, May 1983, p. 120

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is hinged on the reverse at the top two corners to the backing board. The sheet is window matted and there is evidence of pale time staining at the extreme edges of the sheet. The top edge of the sheet is deckled. Framed under Plexiglas.
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