Robert Ryman

Versions III

Auction Closed

May 15, 12:36 AM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Collection of Jean & Terry de Gunzburg

Robert Ryman

(1930 - 2019)

Versions III

signed, titled and dated 92 (on a label affixed to the reverse)

oil and graphite on fiberglass panel, with waxed paper, three white nails and four staples

panel: 63 by 63 in. 160 by 160 cm.

overall: 71 by 63 in. 180.3 by 160 cm.

Executed in 1992.

This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being organized by David Gray under number 1992.003.

The Pace Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in June 1993 by the present owner

Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Hallen für Neue Kunst and New York, The Pace Gallery, Robert Ryman: Versions, May 1992 - February 1993, pp. 6-7, 10-11 (text) and p. 47, illustrated in color

Christoph Schenker, “Robert Ryman: Versions,” Kunstforum International, No. 120, 1992, p. 382 (text)

Bertrun Delli, ed., Art Index: November 1992 to October 1993, New York 1993, p. 892 (text)

Barbara MacAdam, "Ryman's New Romanticism," ARTnews, Vol. 92, No. 3, March 1993, p. 107, illustrated (dated 1991-92)

Mildred Glimcher, ed., Adventures in Art: Forty Years at Pace, Milan 2001, p. 446, illustrated in color (installed in New York, The Pace Gallery, 1992-93)

Suzanne Perling Hudson, “Robert Ryman: Painting Pragmatism,” Princeton University, 2006, fig. 15, p. 189 (text) and p. 283, illustrated

Jean Bond Rafferty, “Poetic License,” Architectural Digest, Vol. 68, No. 5, May 2011, pp. 156, 159 (text) and p. 158, illustrated in color (installed in the de Gunzburg residence)

Philippe Tretiack, "Jacques Grange: L'art des mélanges," Elle Décoration, No. 213, November 2012, p. 167, illustrated in color (installed in the de Gunzburg residence)

Christel Sauer, “A Creative Process: Robert Rymans Versions,” Raussmüller Insights, August 2022 (text) (online)