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MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)

Lot 410
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Lot 410 | MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)
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MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)

Psychiatrists Testify: Demon Dogs Drive Man to Murder

signed, inscribed, titled and dated ‘THIS PICTURE DEDICATED TO RICHARD BASSETT-REDDING PSYCHIATRISTS TESTIFY: DEMON DOGS DRIVE MAN TO MURDER BY MARTIN WONG AUGUST 1980 EUREKA CALIF PAINTING FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED’ (upper and lower edge)

acrylic on canvas

36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm.)

Painted in 1980.





Provenance

Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Germany

Web Gallery NYC, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

Y. Ramírez, “La Vida: The Life and Writings of Miguel Piñero,” Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong, New York, 1998, p. 35.

B. Schwabsky, “A City of Bricks and Ciphers,” Art in America 86, no. 9, September 1998, pp.101–102.

D. Kuspit, “Martin Wong at the New Museum of Contemporary Art,” Art New England 20, no. 1, December 1998/January 1999, p. 13.

M. Wong, “Martin Wong Meets Martin Wong,” Giant Robot, 1999, p. 49.

R.G. Mann, “Wong, Martin,” glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture, 2007, p. 5.

J. Ault, H. P. Knes, D. Vo and M. Wong, I.M.U.U.R.2: Julie Ault, Heinz Peter Knes, Danh Vo, Martin Wong, London, 2013, p.5.

P. Schjeldahl, “City Scenes: A Martin Wong Retrospective,” The New Yorker, November 2015.

Y. Cheung, "The Fantastic Observations of Martin Wong," Hyperallergic, online, 11 November 2015, n.p. (illustrated).

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

I. Dudek, “Martin Wong Human Instamatic,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 2015, n.p.

M.S. Goodman, “Martin Wong,” Frieze, no. 178, April 2016, p. 159.

J.Cassell, “Martin Wong on the Lower East Side,” The Gay & Lesbian Review / Worldwide, May 2016, n.p.

I. Dudek, “I Am You, You Are Too,” ArtAsiaPacific, no. 98, May 2016, p. 75.

K. Douglas, “Graphic Intimations: Postwar to Contemporary Asian Diasporic Art and Writing,” PhD diss., Duke University, 2019, ProQuest (13810175), p. 184.



Exhibited

New York, Frank Bernarducci Gallery, Martin Wong: The Sign Language Paintings, November-December 1988.

Normal, Illinois State University Galleries, Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong, January-February 1998.

Berlin, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Martin Wong: Works 1980-1998, August-September 2010.

Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Loisaida: New York's Lower East Side in the 80's, 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. 37 and 53 (illustrated).



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Artist:Martin Wong (1946 - 1999)
Art style:Contemporary art
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