LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

69.92 in. (177.60 cm.) (height) by 49.92 in. (126.80 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'R. LINDNER 1964' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Twenty-Ninth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, February-April 1965. Paris, Richard Lindner, Galerie Claude Bernard, May-June 1965, n.p. (illustrated). Turin, Galatea Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea and Rome, Galleria il fante di spade, Lindner, November-December 1965, no. 11 (illustrated). Cleveland Museum of Art, Richard Lindner, November 1967-January 1968. Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Düsseldorf, Stätische Kunsthalle; Kunsthaus Zurich and Kunsthalle Nüremberg, Richard Lindner, January 1974-February 1975, p. 18, no. 27 (illustrated). Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght and Liège, Musée Saint-. Georges, Richard Lindner, May-October 1979, p. 76, no. 19. (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, p. 99, no. 39 (illustrated in. color). Madrid, Fundación Juan March and Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio. González, Richard Lindner, October 1998- March 1999, pp. 50 and 90-91, no. 17 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

J. Levêque, "Richard Lindner," La Nouvelle revue française, no. 154, October 1965, p. 735. F. Schulz, "The Corcoran's American Mixture," New York Times, 28 February 1965, p. 22 (illustrated). Richard Lindner, exh. cat., Leverkusen, 1968, n.p. (illustrated). Richard Lindner, exh. cat., Hanover, 1968, p. 126 (illustrated). D. Ashton, Richard Lindner, New York, 1970, pl. 148 (illustrated in color). R. Dienst, Lindner, Kunst heute, Stuttgart, 1970, p. 36 (illustrated). A. Hecht, "Richard Lindner: Ein duetscher Maler wurde mit aggressiven Großstadt-Bildern aus New York berühmt," Stern, vol. 27, no. 34, 6-12 June 1974, p. 41 (illustrated in color). M. Verdone, "Richard Lindner il marionettista implacabile," Terzocchio, vol. 1, no. 1, January 1975, p. 19. Kunst aus USA nach 1950: Amerikaner- Eine didaktische Ausstellung: Bilder, Fotos, Texte, Kunstmmlung Nordhein-Westfalen, exh. cat., Düsseldorf, 1977, p. 43 (illustrated). L. Rivers, "A Send-Off for Richard Lindner," Art in America, vol. 66, no. 6, November-December 1978, p. 150. J. Davidson, Homage to Richard Lindner, New York, 1980, p. 91 (illustrated in color). W. Spies, "Richard Lindner," XXe Siècle, vol. 41, no. 53, December 1980, p. 91 (illustrated in color). W. Spies, Lindner, Paris, 1980, p. 76 (illustrated). G. Néret, Trent ans d'art moderne: pientres et sculpteurs, Fribourg, 1988, p. 170 (illustrated in color). A. Muthesius and B. Rienschneider, eds., Erotik in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Cologne, 1992, p. 40 (illustrated in color). P. Richard, " A Fool for Full Figures: Richard Lindner's Obsessive Secret," Washington Post, 20 October 1996, p. G13 (illustrated). A. Welti, "Im Wartezimmer des Lebens," Art. Das Kunstmagazin, no. 3, March 1997, p. 21 (illustrated). W. Spies, ed., Richard Lindner: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings, Munich, 1999, pp. 30 and 81, no. 79 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York. Acquired from the above by the late owner, 1968.