LOT DETAILS

Materials:

acrylic on canvas

Measurements:

67.87 in. (172.40 cm.) (height) by 56.50 in. (143.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Los Angeles, Molly Barnes Gallery, John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, October 1968. New York, The Jewish Museum and Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Software, September 1970-February 1971. New York, New Museum; Eindhoven, Municipal Van Abbemuseum; Essen, Museum Folkwang; Cincinatti, Contemporary Arts Center and Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, John Baldessari: Work 1966-1980, March 1981-April 1982, no. 103. Newport Beach, Newport Harbor Art Museum; Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery; Palm Springs Desert Museum; Purchase, Neuberger Museum at State University of New York and Phoenix Art Museum, L.A. Pop in the Sixties, April 1989-August 1990, no. 5. Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; 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 and Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, John Baldessari, March 1990-February 1992, pp. 32-33 (illustrated in color). Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object in Art, October 1995-February 1996, no. 23. Laguna Beach, Laguna Art Museum, Life Lessons, October 1998-January 1999. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, February 2008-March 2009.

Literature:

L. Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, Berkeley, 1997.

Provenance:

Acquired from the artist by the present owner, 1973.