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James Rosenquist

The Bird of Paradise Approaches the Hot Water Planet (Grisaille)

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May 13, 09:05 PM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 500,000 USD

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James Rosenquist

1933 - 2017

The Bird of Paradise Approaches the Hot Water Planet (Grisaille) 


oil and acrylic on 2 joined canvases mounted on panel

96 by 84 in. 243.8 by 213.4 cm.

Executed in 1989.

Richard L. Feigen and Co., New York
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1990
Houston, The Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, James Rosenquist: A Retrospective by the Guggenheim, May 2003 - June 2005, pp. 126, 232 and 224, illustrated in color 
New York, Acquavella Galleries, James Rosenquist: Monochromes, October - November 2005, pl. 20, pp. 14, 63 and 56, illustrated in color 
Cologne, Museum Ludwig; ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, James Rosenquist, Paintings as Immersion, November 2017 - August 2018, p. 65, illustrated in color
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Masterworks: From Cézanne to Thiebaud, September - October 2020, pp. 46-47, illustrated in color 
Stacey Skold, Ed., Art Enterprises: Selections from the Collection, Chicago 2000, p. 191
Richard Kalina, “James Rosenquist at Full Scale,” Art in America 92, No. 2, February 2004, p.102