John Baldessari

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Brooke and Carolyn Alexander, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Madrid, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia; Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux; Valencia, IVAM Instituto d'Arte Moderno, Ni por esas/Not even so, January - July 1989, p. 47, illustrated
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; Montreal, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, John Baldessari, March 1990 -  February 1992, p. 181, illustrated (work not shown at all venues)
Graz, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, John Baldessari, Life's Balance: Works 84-04, March - May 2005, p. 113, illustrated in color
Madrid, Galería Pepe Cobo, Feminae, 2005
Nimes, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Nimes, John Baldessari, October 2005 - January 2006, p. 128, illustrated

B. Dubocovsky, "Artista inmenso", AD Architectural Digest, no. 25, May 2008, p. 108, illustrated

This work is in very good condition. As illustrated in the catalogue, the work consists of three framed portions, all with ragboard in black strip frames under Plexiglas. In the left vertical frame, the two triangular panels are mounted to the ragboard, while the other two appear to be floating against ragboard which has led to some soft impacts as the sections move slightly when handled: --in the upper right diamond, along the vertical edges where the two top sections meet, located 4 to 4 ½ inches down from the upper tip of the frame. There is some slight lifting to the edge. Also along the horizontal edges where the two right sections meet, located 10 ¾ to 11 ¾ inches from the right tip of the frame. --In the lower right square frame, along the central diagonal edges of the two triangular sections, located 16 – 16 ½ in. from the upper right corner of the frame and 15 ¾ - 16 ½ inches from the lower left corner.
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