Richard Lindner

Cordier & Ekstrom Inc., New York 
Ned L. Pines, New York 
Thence by descent to the present owner 

New York, Cordier and Warren, Richard Lindner Paintings: Ten Years, October 1961 
London, Robert Fraser Gallery; London, Tate Gallery, Richard Lindner Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 1954-64, June - July 1962, no. 12, illustrated
Cleveland Museum of Art, Richard Lindner, November 1967 - January 1968
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Richard Lindner, December 1968 - January 1969, cat. no. 40, p. 73, illustrated 
Leverkusen, Städtisches Museum Schloß Morsbroich; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Richard Lindner, November 1968 - September 1969, cat. no. 40, p. 23, illustrated
Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Lindner, June - August 1969, cat. no. 27, n.p. 
Paris, Musée de la Vie Romantique, Richard Lindner Adults-Only, February - June 2005

Dore Ashton, Richard Lindner, New York 1968, pl. no. 69, n.p., illustrated 
Rolf-Gunter Dienst, Lindner, New York 1970, cat. no. 13, n.p., illustrated
Art News, May 1977, p. 139
Werner Spies, Ed., Richard Lindner: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings, New York 1999, cat. no. 48, p. 65, illustrated  

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling along the edges including some pinpoint losses along the edges likely caused by rubbing from the frame. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. The canvas is slightly loose on its stretcher. There are a few pinpoint spot accretions visible in the light painted areas and a dark abrasion in the upper right. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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"At times Lindner composes almost totally as if the cryptic symbols and colours themselves were to be read as formal messages. Then he refers to the history of modern art with witty extrapolations: A Léger mass against a Mondrian line, a Metaphysical symbol against a later-day pop target."

Dore Ashton, “Richard Lindner: the secret of the inner voice,” in Exh. Cat., Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum, Lindner, 1969, p. 8