LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

40.12 in. (101.90 cm.) (height) by 60.04 in. (152.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'R. LINDNER 1965' (lower center)

Exhibited:

New York, Cordier & Ekstrom, Richard Lindner, January-February 1967. Leverkusen, Städische Museum; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Hanover, Kestner-Gesellschaft and Berlin, Haus am Walsee, Richard Lindner, October 1968-March 1969, no. 63 (illustrated in color; Leverkusen and Baden-Baden) and p. 70, no. 127 (illustrated in color; Hanover and Berlin). Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum and Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Lindner, June-August 1969, pp. 10 and 29, no. 74 (illustrated in color). New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum, Human Concern, Personal Torment, October 1969-March 1970, no. 80, frontispiece (illustrated in color). Paris Musée National d'Art Moderne; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Düsseldorf, Städische Kunsthalle; Kunsthalle Zurich and Kunsthalle Nüremberg, Richard Lindner, January 1974-February 1975, pp. 21 and 34, no. 28 (illustrated). Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght and Liège, Musée Saint-Georges, Richard Lindner, May-October 1976, p. 64, no. 20 (illustrated in color). Washington, D.C, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Richard Lindner: Paintings and Watercolors 1948-197, October 1996-April 1997, pp. 90, 92 and 101, no. 41 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

R. Penrose, "Richard Lindner," Art International, vol. 11, no. 1, January 1967, pp. 30 and 32 (illustrated). J. Perrault, "Venus in Vinyl," Art News, vol. 65, no. 9, January 1967, pp. 46 and 47 (illustrated). R. Gunter, "Ausstellungen in New York. Richard Lindner," Das Kunstwerk, vol. 20, no. 5/6, February-March 1967, p. 25. P. Gorsen, Sexualästhetik: Grenzformen der Sinnlichkeit im 20. Jahrhundert, Hamburg, 1987, p. 271. "Richard Lindner: The Rubens of the Love Generation," Avant-Garde, January 1968, p. 25 (illustrated in color). D. Ashton, Richard Lindner, New York, 1970, pl. 156 (illustrated in color). R. Dienst, Lindner. Kunst heute, Stuttgart, 1970, p. 43 (illustrated). M. Staber, "Symbolfiguren ans Land der Malerei Gezogen; Zum Werk von. Richard Lindner," Kunstnachrichten, vol. 11, no. 2, January 1975, p. 43 (illustrated in color). W. Spies, Lindner, Paris, 1980, p. 64 (illustrated). W. Spies, ed., Richard Lindner: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings, Munich, 1999, p. 82, no. 82 (illustrated). A. Betsky, Three California Houses: The Homes of Max Palevsky, New York, 2002, pp. 68 and 77 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York. Miss Helen Mary Harding, New York. Robert Elkon Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1973.