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John Cage. Where R = Ryoanji R/16, 12/90

Lot 676
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Lot 676 | John Cage. Where R = Ryoanji R/16, 12/90
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€ 7 000 – 9 000
CAGE, JOHN
1912 Los Angeles - 1992 New York

Title: Where R = Ryoanji R/16, 12/90.
Date: 1990.
Technique: Pencil on handmade Japan.
Measurement: 25,5 x 48cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: John Cage 12/90. Also titled lower left: R/16.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.


Provenance:
- Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York (adhesive label)
- Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati (adhesive label)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Exhibitions:
- Kunsthaus Zürich/Städtische Galerie Erlangen, 1991
- Zentrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen 1992
- Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt a.M. 1993
- Karen McCready Fine Arts, New York 1999
- New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, 2000
- Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York 2002
- Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York 2009
- Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York 2012

Literature:
- Thierolf, Corinna: John Cage, Ryoanji, Catalogue Raisonné of the Visual Artworks, Vol. 1, Munich 2013, p. 148, cat. rais. no. 157, p. 184, ill.
- Exhib. cat. John Cage. Partituren, Graphik, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle. Kunsthaus Zürich/Städtische Galerie Erlangen 1991, cat. no. 34, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Observation: Notation, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, 2000.
Applied technique:Pencil
Auction house category:Post War paintings, drawings, watercolours
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