Lot 230
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NICOLE EISENMAN | It's Raining Men

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Nicole Eisenman
  • It's Raining Men
  • signed and dated 1999 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 24 by 18 in. 61 by 45.7 cm.

Provenance

Entwistle Gallery, London
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1999)
Christie's, New York, 12 February 2015, Lot 259
Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Entwistle Gallery, Nicole Eisenmann, 1999
Ithaca, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, Nicole Eisenman: Selected Works, 1993 - 2003, June - August 2003, n.p., illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. Upon extremely close inspection and raking light, there are some very faint tension cracks along the lower half of the two vertical edges and some very fine networks for hairline cracks to the lower half of the composition. Upon further close inspection there are a few scattered minute media accretions. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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