Lot 30
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KEITH SONNIER | Three-Part Study for Skyline

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

  • Keith Sonnier
  • Three-Part Study for Skyline
  • each signed with the artist's initials and dated '81
  • felt-tip pen, charcoal and graphite on graph paper, in 3 parts
  • i. 10 by 24 1/8 in. 25.4 by 61.3 cm.; ii. 10 by 37 in. 25.4 by 94 cm.
  • iii. 10 1/8 by 22 in. 25.7 by 55.9 cm.

Provenance

Collection of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Vancouver Art Gallery; Calgary, The Nickle Arts Museum; New York, Seagram Building; London Regional Art Gallery, Drawings by Sculptors: Two Decades of Non-Objective Art in the Seagram Collection, May 1984 - June 1985, p. 67, illustrated

Condition

These works are in very good condition overall. Each sheet is hinged verso to the mat at all four corners. The sheets are slightly undulated and there is evidence of a few pinpoint areas of stray medium. Under close inspection, there is evidence of pale time staining particularly at the corners and edges of the sheets. Each framed under Plexiglas.
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