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Property from the Estate of Barbara Spiegel Linhart
Red Grooms
Barbara
Lot Closed
July 21, 08:02 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Red Grooms
b. 1937
Barbara
signed and dated 1987
wood, clay, phone chord, papier-mâché, graphite, watercolor, cut paper and board assemblage in Plexiglas case
39½ by 33¾ by 20 in. (100.3 by 85.7 by 50.8 cm.)
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1987
On the occasion of Barbara Linhart's 60th birthday, Barbara’s husband commissioned Red Grooms to create a surprise portrait of his wife, capturing her most natural pose; on the telephone, in house slippers, talking to friends. Grooms subsequently created his mixed media assemblage Barbara based on this portrait.