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PETER HALLEY (B. 1953)

Lot 340
17.05.2024 14:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 180 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1209796
Lot 340 | PETER HALLEY (B. 1953)
Estimate value
$ 180 000 – 250 000
PETER HALLEY (B. 1953)
Halley, P.
Prison and Cell with Smokestack and Conduit
signed twice, titled and dated 'Peter Halley PETER HALLEY PRISON AND CELL WITH SMOKESTACK WITH CONDUIT 1985' (on the reverse); signed again, titled again and dated again 'PETER HALLEY PRISON + CELL WITH SMOKESTACK WITH CONDUIT 1985' (on the stretcher)
acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, Flashe and Roll-a-Tex on two joined canvases
63 x 108 in. (160 x 274.3 cm.)
Executed in 1985.




Provenance

Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Marvin and Alice Kosmin, New York
Private collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

L. Leja, “Art Review: Lively Third Annual ‘Currents’ Exhibit at ICA,” Boston College Newspaper, 30 September 1985, p. 22.
H. Kontova and G. Politi, "Two Italians in New York," Flash Art, no. 125, December 1985, p. 38 (illustrated).
P. Halley, "The Deployment of the Geometric," Spazio Umano, no. 4, October-December 1986, p. 100 (illustrated).
M. Sundell and T. Beller, "An Interview with Peter Halley,” Splash, Summer 1988, n.p. (illustrated).
J. Heynen, Weitersehen 1980–1990, Krefeld, 1990, p. 86 (illustrated).
P. Halley, "An Introduction," Balcon, v. 8–9, 1991, p. 80 (illustrated).
Peter Halley: Bilder der 90er Jahre, exh. cat., Essen, Museum Folkwang, 1999, p. 16 (illustrated).
C. Reynolds, ed., Peter Halley: Maintain Speed, New York, 2000, pp. 116-117, 197, 199 and 201 (illustrated).
"Peter Halley," Pen with New Attitude, no. 168, 2006, p. 56 (illustrated).
J. Rojkowska, “Dekonstrukcja Geometrii: Dekonstrukcja Światła,” artluk, no. 2, February 2011, p. 49 (illustrated).
E. de Chassey, L'Abstraction avec ou sans raisons, Paris, 2017, p. 50 (illustrated).
Please Come Back: The World as a Prison?, exh. cat., Rome, Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, 2017, p. 127 (illustrated).
C. Jordan and C. Dirié, eds., Peter Halley: Paintings of the 1980s, The Catalogue Raisonné, Zürich, 2019, p. 74 (illustrated).
P. Tinari, C. McCormick, S. Rodney and P. Eleey, Somewhere Downtown: Art in 1980s New York, Beijing, 2022, p. 59.
R. Hobbs, Peter Halley: A Monograph, Munich, 2023, p. 134 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Currents: Number 7, September 1985.
New York, Galerie Lelong, Group Exhibition, April-June 1988.
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Horn of Plenty, January-February 1989, pp. 38 and 99 (illustrated).
Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain; Lausanne, FAE Musée d'art contemporain; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Peter Halley: Oeuvres de 1982 à 1991, December 1991-November 1992, pp. 42 and 78 (illustrated).
Lisbon, Culturgest, Anos 80 = The Eighties, May-August 1998, p. 107 (illustrated).
New York, MoMA P.S.1, Around 1984: A Look at Art in the 80s, May-September 2000, n.p. (illustrated).
New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Peter Halley: Early Work: 1982–1987, September-October 2009.
New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Cellblock I, December 2012-February 2013, pp. 41 and 48-49 (illustrated).
Beijing, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Somewhere Downtown: Art in 1980s New York, October 2022-January 2023.
Mudam Luxembourg, Peter Halley. Conduits: Paintings from the 1980s, March-October 2023, pp. 82-83, 84 and 94 (illustrated).
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