MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)

Lot 214
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Lot 214 | MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)
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$ 600 000 – 800 000
MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)

African Temple at 9th Street

signed and inscribed '638 EAST NINTH STREET NEW YORK by MARTIN WONG' (lower center)

acrylic on canvas

48 x 96 in. (121.9 x 243.8 cm.)

Painted in 1985.





Provenance

Semaphore Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1985



Literature

D. Cameron, "Image and Authority: The Recent Painting of Martin Wong," Arts Magazine, no. 5, January 1986, pp. 14, 16.

D. Cameron, "Brick by Brick: New York According to Martin Wong," Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong, exh. cat., New York, New Museum, 1998, pp. 8 and 53, pl. 6 (illustrated).

B. Schwabsky, "A City of Bricks and Ciphers," Art in America, no. 9, September 1998, p. 103.

J. Bruce, "Red Brick and Chain Link," The International Review of African American Art, no. 4, 2002, p. 38 (illustrated).

D. Cameron, L. Kirwin, and A. W. Moore, East Village USA, exh. cat., New York, New Museum, 2004, p. 31, no. 174 (illustrated).

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

The Martin Wong Foundation, Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Semaphore Gallery, Martin Wong: A Picture Show, October-November 1985.

The Art Gallery, Cleveland State University, Acts of Faith: Politics and the Spirit, January-February 1988, p. 7.
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