The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction
The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction
Triumph Over Mastery II
Auction Closed
November 9, 12:13 AM GMT
Estimate
8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Mark Tansey
(b. 1949)
Triumph Over Mastery II
oil on canvas
97 ⅛ by 68 ⅛ in. 246.7 by 173 cm.
Executed in 1987.
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in October 1987 by the present owner
Richard Martin, "Mark Tansey's Triumph Over Mastery," Arts Magazine, vol. 62, February 1988, p. 23, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Kunsthalle Basel, Mark Tansey, 1990, p. 8
Andy Grundberg, "Review/Art: Attacking Not Only Masters but Mastery as Well," The New York Times, 23 November 1990, p. C29, illustrated
Arthur C. Danto, Mark Tansey: Visions and Revisions, New York, 1992, illustrated in color (on the cover) (detail), and pp. 22-23, illustrated in color
Christopher Knight, “Art Review: Tansey’s Talent to Amuse: Mid-Career Survey at County Museum,” Los Angeles Times, 22 June 1993 (online)
Ted Loos, "Tansey's Triumph," Art & Antiques, February 1994, p. 55, illustrated in color
Gilian Wohlauer, Kathryn Potts and Trevor Fairbrother, Mark Tansey and Connections: Mark Tansey (brochure), Boston, 1994, illustrated in color (on the cover) and pp. 2-3, illustrated in color
Helene E. Roberts, ed., Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art, vol. 2, Chicago, 1998, p. 680
Mark C. Taylor, The Picture in Question: Mark Tansey & The Ends of Representation, Chicago, 1999, p. 36
Teel Sale and Claudia Betti, Drawing: A Contemporary Approach, Belmont, 2004, p. 229, illustrated
Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, p. 71, illustrated in color (in installation)
William Chapman Sharpe, Grasping Shadows: The Dark Side of Literature, Painting, Photography, and Film, Oxford, 2017, p. 221, illustrated in color
John Thomason, "Norton's New Exhibition a Trove of Contemporary Art Riches," Boca Magazine, 16 March 2022 (online)
Milwaukee Art Museum, 1988: The World of Art Today, May - August 1988, no. 64, pp. 47, 112, illustrated
Frankfurt, Frankfurter Kunstverein Schirn Kunsthalle, Prospect 89, March - May 1989, p. 191, illustrated in color and p. 224
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art; and Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, A Perspective on Contemporary Art - Color and/or Monochrome, September 1989 - February 1990, pp. 88-89, illustrated in color
New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80's, September - October 1990, p. 127, illustrated in color and p. 137
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Charade of Mastery: Deciphering Modernism in Contemporary Art, October 1990 - January 1991, pp. 6-7, illustrated
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Paint and Painted, May 1993, n.p.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Mark Tansey, June 1993 - November 1994, no. 17, pp. 56-57, illustrated in color and p. 114
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Painting and Sculpture: Selections from the Collection, May 2007 - January 2008
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Five Decades of Passion: Part One: The Eye of the Collector, 1968-1988, January - April 2009
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Unforgettable: Selections from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection, February - April 2011
West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Remarkable Gathering: The Fisher Landau Family Collection, March - September 2022