MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)

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ID 845941
Lot 411 | MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 200 000
MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)

The Babysitter

acrylic on canvas, in artist's found frame

32 x 35 in. (81.3 x 88.9 cm.)

Painted in 1988.





Provenance

P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York

Hobbs Gallery, Boston

Private collection, Wellesley, Massachusetts

Anon. sale; artnet Auctions, online, 21 December 2010, lot 39811

Web Gallery NYC, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

T. Morgan, “The Intimate Visions of Martin Wong, Loisaida’s ‘Chino-Latino’ Painter,” Hyperallergic, January 2016.

A. Strombeck, DIY on the Lower East Side: Books, Buildings, and Art after the 1975 Fiscal Crisis, Albany, 2020, p. 80.



Exhibited

New York, Exit Art, Martin Wong: New Paintings, November-December 1988.

Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Loisaida: New York's Lower East Side in the '80s, April-July 2014.

New York, The Bronx Museum of the Arts and Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Martin Wong: Human Instamatic, November 2015-August 2016, pp. 43 and 157 (illustrated).



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