ID 846071
Lot 517 | JOHN BALDESSARI (1930-2020)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
Choosing (A Game for Two Players): Turnips
color photographs mounted on board, in seven parts
each: 14 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (36 x 24.1 cm.)
Executed in 1971-72.
Provenance
Galerie MTL, Brussels
Private collection, Belgium
Estate of Nina Castelli Sundell, New York
Her sale; Christie's, New York, 14 May 2015, lot 490
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
T. Lawson, "The Theatre of the Mind: John Baldessari," Parkett: John Baldessari/Cindy Sherman, 1991, pp. 40-41, no. 29 (illustrated).
J. Saltz, "John Baldessari: The Curious Discovery of A+I(Ov.)=8, or the Smile of Reason," Forum International, no. 14, September-October 1991, p. 72 (illustrated).
R. Dean and P. Pardo, eds., John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné Volume One: 1956-1974, New Haven, 2013, p. 194, no. 1972.7 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Milan, Galleria Toselli, John Baldessari: Choosing, Aligning, Floating, April 1972.
New York, Christine Burgin Gallery and Santa Monica, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles 1970-75, February-May 1991.
| Artist: | John Baldessari (1931 - 2020) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Artist: | John Baldessari (1931 - 2020) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
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