LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

50.00 in. (127.00 cm.) (height) by 30.08 in. (76.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'R Linder 1954'(lower right)

Exhibited:

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Richard Lindner: Paintings, February 1956, no. 7. Lynchburg, Randolph-Macon Women's College, Forty-Seventh Annual Exhibition of American Painting, March 1958. Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Lindner, June-August 1969, no. 13. Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Kunsthaus Zurich and Kunsthalle Nüremberg, Richard Lindner, January 1974-February 1975, p. 35, no. 7 (illustrated in color). Kunsthalle Bern; Biennale di Venezia; Brussels, Société des Beaux-Arts; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Paris, Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs; Le Creusot, Musée de l'Homme et de l'Industrie; Malmö Konsthall; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Vienna, Museum des 20.Jarhunderts, Junggesellenmaschinen/Les Machines Célebataires, July-August 1975, p.141 (illustrated). Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Richard Lindner: A Retrospective Exhibition, May-July 1977, p. 26. Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght and Liège, Musée Saint-Georges, Richard Lindner, May-October 1979, p. 58, no. 5 (illustrated). Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Richard Lindner: Paintings and Watercolors 1948-1977, October 1996-April 1997, pp. 23 and 57, no. 16 (illustrated in color). Madrid, Fundación Juan March and Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio González, Richard Lindner, October 1998-March 1999, p. 33, no. 6 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

Richard Lindner, exh. cat., Leverkusen, 1968, n.p. (illustrated). Richard Lindner, exh. cat., Hanover, 1968, p. 122 (illustrated). D. Ashton, Richard Lindner, New York, 1970, p. 36, pl. 22 (illustrated). R. Dienst, Lindner. Kunst heute, Stuttgart, 1970, p. 7 (illustrated). G. Deleuze and F. Guattari, Capitalisme et schizophrénie: L'Anti-Oedipe, Paris, 1972, pp. 7, 13, 55 and 429 (illustrated). W. Stevenson, "Les secrets de Richard Lindner," XXe Siècle, vol. 35, no. 40, June 1973, p. 146. J. Martin and M. Tabart, "Informations diverses. Musée National d'Art Moderne: Richard Lindner," La Revue du Louvre et des musées de France, vol. 23, 1973, p. 406. F. de Gruson, "Richard Lindner: De la contiguité des corps," Clés pour les arts, no. 43, 6-12 June 1974, p. 14 (illustrated). J. Chalumeau, "L'Agonie de la Philosophie: Revanche de l'image," Opus International, no. 50, May 1974, p. 77 (illustrated). "Lindner," Bulletin Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, no. 10, April 1974, p. 74 (illustrated). M. Verdone, "Richard Lindner il marionettista implacabile," Terzocchio, vol. 1, no. 1, January 1975, p. 18 (illustrated). P. Comte, "Les machines célibataires," Opus International, no. 60, July 1976, p. 36 (illustrated). W. Spies, Lindner, Paris, 1980, pp. 28-42, p. 6 (illustrated). W. Spies, "Richard Lindner," XXe Siècle, vol. 41, no. 53, December 1980, p. 54 and 81 (illustrated). J. Davidson, Homage to Richard Lindner, New York, 1980, p. 81 (illustrated). P. Gorsen, Sexualásthetik: Grenzformen der Sinnlichkeit im 20.Jahrhundert, Hamburg, 1987, pp. 49, 136, 139 and 275, fig. 42 (illustrated). C. Loyall, Richard Lindner, ein Emigrant in New York: Zum Selbstverstädnis des Künstlers 1950-1953. Mit einem Anhang unveröffentlichter Korrespondenz an Hermann und Toni Kesten, Frankfurt, 1996, pp. 54 and 177, fig. 38 (illustrated). J. Russell, "Weird, From Somewhere Beyond Real," New York Times, 17 November 1996, p. 39 (illustrated). M. Naves, "Richard Lindner: A New Yorker in Washington," New Criterion, vol. 15, no. 5, January 1997, pp. 47-49 (illustrated). W. Spies, ed., Richard Lindner: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings, Munich, 1999, pp. 25 and 53, no. 23 (illustrated in color). A. Weiss, Breathless: Sound Recording, Disembodiment and the Transformation of Lyrical Nostalgia, Middletown, 2002, p. 154.

Provenance:

Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Harrison, Batavia. Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc., New York. Dr. P. Peter Rosier, Fort Meyers. Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 19 November 1981, lot 35. Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.