LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

32.01 in. (81.30 cm.) (height) by 24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed "Baziotes" lower right; further signed and titled "Circus Abstraction William Baziotes" on the reverse

Exhibited:

Ithaca, Cornell University, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years, March 30 – December 3, 1978, fig. 44, p. 58 (illustrated) Milwaukee Art Museum, Center Ring, The Artist: Two Centuries of Circus Art, May 7 - June 28, 1981, no. 8, pp. 46, 90 (illustrated, p. 46)

Provenance:

Saidenberg Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York James Reinish & Associates, Inc., New York Acquired from the above by the present owner