Lot 259
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JOHN BALDESSARI | Violent Space Series: Four Portraits of Swords Aligned

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • John Baldessari
  • Violent Space Series: Four Portraits of Swords Aligned
  • black and white photographs on board mounted on board, in artist's frame
  • Framed: 30 1/2 by 61 1/4 in. 77.5 by 155.6 cm.
  • Executed in 1976.

Provenance

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in February 2008

Exhibited

Portland Center for the Visual Arts, John Baldessari: Blasted Allegories, January - February 1978
Dayton, University Art Galleries at Wright State University; Long Beach Museum of Art; Richmond, Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, John Baldessari: Artist As Riddle, January - September 1982
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía; Bordeaux, Musée d’Art Contemporain; Instituto Valencia de Arte Moderno, Ni por Ésas / Not Even So: John Baldessari, January - July 1989, p. 30, illustrated in color
Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, John Baldessari: A Different Kind of Order (Works 1962-1984), March - July 2005, p. 251, illustrated in color
Nimes, Carré d’Art Musée d’Art Contemporain, John Baldessari: From Life, October 2005 - January 2006, pp. 24-25 and 154 (text), and p. 121, illustrated in color
London, Tate Modern; Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Baldessari, Pure Beauty, October 2009 - January 2011, pp. 310, 320, and p. 216, illustrated in color

Literature

Andy Rocchia, "Julia Hoffman Made Imprint on Oregon Art," Oregon Journal, 26 January 1978
Patrick Pardo and Robert Dean, Eds., John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné: Volume Two: 1975-1986, New Haven 2013, cat. no. 1976.27, p. 114, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There are some minor scratches and signs of handling and wear to the artist's frame. There is some very light discoloration to the backing board. Framed in artist's frame.
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Catalogue Note

"I would go to the library and read books on photography. I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both. It could be seen as a next step for me, getting away from paintings. That might be fruitful. Later, that was called conceptual art." John Baldessari