ROBERT LONGO | Untitled (Halo)

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Private Collection, Santa Monica
Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 2013, Lot 538
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Hal Foster, Robert Longo: Charcoal, Ostfildern 2012, p. 25, illustrated in colour and pp. 134-35, illustrated in colour

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is slightly warmer in the original. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Close inspection reveals a few tiny scuffs to the extreme outer edges of the artist's frame.
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“Photography is our culture’s collective memory. I try to make my work not look too photographic, and at the same time I do not want them to have a drawn look. They have to occupy a middle ground. From a certain distance, they should put into question, ‘could that be a photograph?’ Then, the closer you get, you become aware of the fact that they are drawings and you’re pulled into an intimacy with them as a consequence” (Robert Longo in conversation with Caroline Smulders, ‘An Hour with Robert Longo’, in: Robert Longo, New York 2009, p. 34).