LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and acrylic on canvas

Measurements:

59.25 in. (150.50 cm.) (height) by 45.00 in. (114.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Los Angeles, Eugenia Butler Gallery, John Baldessari, February - March 1970 (all 14 Commissioned Paintings included); New York, Richard Feigen Gallery, John Baldessari: Recent Paintings, March - April 1970 (all 14 Commissioned Paintings included); Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Montreal, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, John Baldessari, March 1990 - February 1992, p. 51, illustrated (13 Commissioned Paintings included); New York, Sonnabend Gallery, John Baldessari: The Commissioned Paintings, November - December 1998; Cologne, Sprüth Magers Cologne, John Baldessari: The Commissioned Paintings, September - October 1999; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, John Baldessari: A Different Kind of Order (Arbeiten 1962-1984), March - July 2005, p. 153, illustrated in color

Literature:

Peter Plagens, "Los Angeles," Artforum, vol. 8, no. 9, May 1970, p. 83 (text); San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, John Baldessari: National City, March - June 1996, p. 83, illustrated; Patrick Pardo and Robert Dean, eds., John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One: 1956-1974, New Haven and London, 2012, cat. no. 1969.19, p. 132, illustrated in color

Provenance:

Galerie Philomene Magers, Munich and Berlin (acquired from the artist); Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2001