JOHN BALDESSARI (1931-2020)

Lot 33
19.11.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1508194
Lot 33 | JOHN BALDESSARI (1931-2020)
Estimate value
$ 1 500 000 – 2 000 000
JOHN BALDESSARI (1931-2020)
Commissioned Painting: A Painting by Edgar Transue
oil and acrylic on canvas
59 ¼ x 45 in. (150.5 x 114.3 cm.)
Painted in 1969.




Provenance

Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne
The Sender Collection, New York, 2001
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 May 2014, lot 10
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

P. Plagens, "Los Angeles," Artforum, vol. 8, no. 9, May 1970, p. 83.
John Baldessari: National City, exh. cat. San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996, p. 83 (illustrated).
P. Pardo and R. Dean, eds., John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One: 1956-1974, New Haven and London, 2012, p. 132, cat. no. 1969.19 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Los Angeles, Eugenia Butler Gallery, John Baldessari, February-March 1970.
New York, Richard Feigen Gallery, John Baldessari: Recent Paintings, March-April 1970.
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Montreal, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, John Baldessari, March 1990-February 1992, p. 51 (illustrated).
New York, Sonnabend Gallery, John Baldessari: The Commissioned Paintings, November-December 1998.
Cologne, Sprüth Magers, John Baldessari: The Commissioned Paintings, September-October 1999.
Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, John Baldessari: A Different Kind of Order (Arbeiten 1962-1984), March-July 2005, p. 153 (illustrated).
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