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Property from an Important Midwestern Collection

Robert Colescott

George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook

Auction Closed

May 13, 12:52 AM GMT

Estimate

9,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Midwestern Collection


Robert Colescott

1925 - 2009

George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook

signed and titled; signed twice, dated 1975 and variously inscribed on the stretcher

acrylic on canvas

78 ½ by 98 ¼ in. 199.4 by 249.6 cm.


美國中西部重要私人收藏


羅伯特・科司考特

1925 - 2009年

《美國歷史教科書上的一頁:喬治・華盛頓・卡弗橫渡特拉華河》

款識:藝術家簽名並書題目;簽名兩次、紀年1975並題款數次(內框)

壓克力彩畫布

78 1/2 x 98 1/4 英寸;199.4 x 249.6 公分

The artist

Collection of John Berggruen, San Francisco (acquired from the above in 1975)

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

Private Collection, St. Louis (acquired from the above in 1976)

Thence by descent to the present owner


藝術家本人

約翰・貝格魯恩收藏,三藩市(1975年購自上述來源)

約翰・貝格魯恩畫廊,三藩市

私人收藏,聖路易(1976年購自上述畫廊)

此後由家族傳承至現藏家

Alfred Frankenstein, "An Outrageous Ethnic Satire," San Francisco Chronicle, 10 July 1975, p. 41 (text)

Lowery Stokes Sims, "Bob Colescott Ain't Just Misbehavin'," Artforum, March 1984, illustrated in color on the cover, and p. 56 (text)

Robert Colescott, "Cultivating a Subversive Palette," in: Mark O'Brien and Craig Little, Eds., Reimaging America: The Arts of Social Change, Philadelphia 1990, p. 300 (text)

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Museum of Women in the Arts, Carrie Mae Weems, 1993, p. 14 (text)

Irving Sandler, Art of the Postmodern Era, Boulder 1996, p. 10, illustrated, and p. 90 (text)

Sandra Adell, Ed., Dictionary of 20th Century Culture: African American Culture, Detroit 1996, p, 102 (text)

Steven H. Jaffe, Who Were the Founding Fathers: Two Hundred Years of American History, New York 1996, p. 201 (text)

Sharon Fitzgerald, "Robert Colescott Rocks the Boat." American Visions 12, No. 3, June - July 1997, pp. 14-16 (text)

Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada, New York 1998, illustrated in color on the cover

Exh. Cat., New York, Katonah Museum of Art, Re/Righting History: Counternarratives by Contemporary African American Artists, 1999, p. 11, fig. 4, illustrated, and p. 35 (text)

Susan Gubar, Racechanges: White Skin, Black Face in American Culture, Oxford 2000, p. 46 (text)

Jean Robertson, Painting as a Language: Material, Technique, Form, Content, Fort Worth 2000, p. 222 (text)

Glenda Rossana Carpio, Critical Memory in the Fictions of Slavery, Berkeley 2002, p. iii, illustrated

Erika Doss, Twentieth Century American Art, Oxford 2002, p. 195, no. 107, illustrated in color

Ellen Wiley Todd, "Two Georges and Us: Multiple Perspectives on the Image," American Art, Vol. 17, No. 2, Summer 2003, p. 13 (text)

Constance Rourke, American Humor: A Study of the National Character, New York 2004 (reprint of 1931 edition), illustrated in color on the cover (detail)

Michael Lobel, "Black to Front," Artforum, October 2004, p. 266, illustrated in color, and pp. 267, 269 and 310 (text)

David Hackett Fisher, Washington's Crossing, New York 2005, p. 455, illustrated

Jody B. Cutler. "Art Revolution: Politics and Pop in the Robert Colescott Painting 'George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware'," Americana: The Journal of American Culture 1900 - Present, Vol. 8, Iss. 2, Fall 2009, illustrated in color (online)

Huey Copeland, "Truth to Power," Artforum, October 2009, p. 59 (text), and p. 60, illustrated in color

Christopher Looby, American Literature's Aesthetic Dimensions, New York 2012, p. 58 (text)

Robert Sullivan, My American Revolution, New York 2012, p. 34 (text)

Trumbull, Morgann, ed. Berggruen Gallery: 50 Years, 1970-2020, San Francisco 2020, p. 374, illustrated in color

Richard J. Powell, Going There: Black Visual Satire, New Haven 2020, pp. 15 and 158 (text), and p. 18, fig. 14, illustrated in color


阿弗雷德・法蘭肯斯坦,〈聳人聽聞的種族嘲諷〉,《三藩市紀事報》,1975年7月10日,頁41(內文)

洛維利・史篤斯・西姆斯,〈羅伯特・科司考特並非只是行為不端〉,《Artforum》,1984年3月,封面載彩圖,頁56(內文)

羅伯特・科司考特,〈組合顛覆傳統的調色板〉,載於馬克・奧布萊恩及克雷格・里圖(合編)之《重看美國:反映社會改變的藝術》,費城,1990年,頁300(內文)

展覽圖錄,華盛頓特區,國家女性藝術博物館,《卡麗・梅・威姆斯》,1993年,頁14(內文)

歐文・桑德勒,《後現代藝術》,波德,1996年,頁10,載圖;頁90(內文)

桑德拉・亞黛(編),《二十世紀文化辭典:美國非裔文化》,底特律,1996年,頁102(內文)

史蒂芬・H・嘉夫,《誰是開國元勳:二百年美國史》,紐約,1996年,頁201(內文)

莎朗・菲茨杰拉德,〈羅伯特・科司考特惹風波〉,《美國視野》,第12卷,第3期,1997年6月至7月,頁14-16(內文)

伊舒邁爾・里德,《飛往加拿大》,紐約,1998年,封面載彩圖

展覽圖錄,紐約,卡頓南藝術博物館,《再/糾正歷史:當代美國非裔藝術家的對衡論述》,1999年,頁11,圖4;頁35(內文)

蘇珊・古巴,《種族變化:美國文化裡的白皮膚和黑面孔》,牛津,2000年,頁46(內文)

約翰・羅伯森,《繪畫即語言:媒材、技巧、形式與內容》,沃斯堡,2000年,頁222(內文)

格蘭達・洛珊娜・卡皮奧,《奴隸故事裡的關鍵記憶》,柏克萊,2002年,頁iii,載圖

艾麗卡・多斯,《二十世紀美國藝術》,牛津,2002年,頁195,品號107,載彩圖

艾倫・韋利・托德,〈我們與兩個喬治:觀看圖像的多元角度〉,《美國藝術》,第17卷,第2期,2003年夏,頁13(內文)

康士坦絲・盧克,《美式幽默:國家重要人物考》,紐約,2004年(1931年之重印版),封面載彩圖(局部)

邁克爾・羅布,〈黑之崛起〉,《Artforum》,2004年10月,頁266,載彩圖;頁267、269及310(內文)

大衛・哈克特・費沙,《華盛頓的橫渡》,紐約,2005年,頁455,載圖

佐迪・B・卡特勒,〈藝術革命:羅伯特・科司考特名畫《喬治・華盛頓・卡弗橫渡特拉華河》中的政治意味與流行文化〉,《美利堅:1900年至今的美國文化》,第8卷,第2期,2009年秋,載彩圖(網絡版)

休伊・科普蘭,〈化真相為力量〉,《Artforum》,2009年10月,頁59(內文);頁60,載彩圖

克里斯托弗・路比,《美國文學的美學》,紐約,2012年,頁58(內文)

羅伯特・蘇利文,《我的美國革命》,紐約,2012年,頁34(內文)

摩根・秦布(編),《古根海姆美術館五十年,1970-2020年》,三藩市,2020年,頁374,載彩圖

理查德・J・鮑威爾,《前往彼方:黑人的諷刺藝術》,紐海文,2020年,頁15及158(內文);頁18,彩圖14