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MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)

Lot 35
14.05.2024 16:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1209421
Lot 35 | MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)
Estimate value
$ 1 000 000 – 2 000 000
MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)
Wong, M.
Portrait of Mikey Piñero at Ridge Street and Stanton
signed, titled and inscribed 'LA VERA di NUYORICO MIGUEL PINERO RECITA LA POESIA de LOISAIDA PARA MARTIN WONG CORNER of RIDGE STREET AND STANTON' (lower edge)
acrylic on canvas
72 x 72 in. (182.9 x 182.9 cm.)
Painted in 1985.




Provenance

Semaphore Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1985



Literature

C. McCormick, “Boy in the Hood,” Artforum, vol. 38, no. 2, October 1999, p. 116 (illustrated).
R. Perez, “Queer Mediums: The Cultural Politics of Figuration in Latin@ Literature and Performance,” New York University, January 2012, pp. 55-56, 73, 77 and 78.
H. Cotter, “An Urban Visionary With a Hungry Eye,” New York Times, 20 November 2015 (illustrated).
I. Dudek, “Martin Wong Human Instamatic,” The Brooklyn Rail, 15 December 2015-16 January 2016.
A. Strombeck, DIY on the Lower East Side: Books, Buildings, and Art after the 1975 Fiscal Crisis, Albany, 2020, pp. 57-59 (illustrated).
Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief, exh. cat. Cologne, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022, pp. 120 and 146-147 (illustrated).
The Martin Wong Foundation, Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Semaphore Gallery, Martin Wong: A Picture Show, October-November 1985.
Normal, Illinois State University Galleries and New York, New Museum, Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong, May-September 1998, pp. 34 and 44-45 (illustrated).
Bronx Museum of Arts; Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts and University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Martin Wong: Human Instamatic, November 2015-December 2017, pp. 121 and 154.
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