LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas with balloons and string

Size Notes:

overall; canvas diameter: (148.6 cm.)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 'MARILYN II 1963 JAMES ROSENQUIST' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, The Other Tradition, January-March 1966, p. 47. Kunsthalle Köln, James Rosenquist: Gemälde—Räume—Graphik, January-March 1972, p. 127, no 71. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, James Rosenquist, April-May 1972, p. 47 (illustrated). Paris, Galerie de France, James Rosenquist, April-May 1976. New London, Connecticut College, on loan, December 1975-September 1979. Chapel Hill, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, on loan, September 1979-January 1980.

Literature:

L. R. Lippard, "An Impure Situation (New York and Philadelphia Letter)," Art International, vol. 10, no. 5, 20 May 1966, pp. 60-61. L. R. Lippard, Changing: Essays in Art Criticism, New York, 1971, pp. 77-78. M. Hand, The Passionate Collector: Robert B. Mayer’s Adventures in Art, Chicago, 2011, p. 98 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Green Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1964