Lot 231
  • 231

Philip Pearlstein

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Philip Pearlstein
  • Seated Nude on Green Drape
  • signed and dated '69
  • oil on canvas
  • 60 by 48 in. 152.4 by 122 cm.

Provenance

Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (gift of Friends of Whitney)
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

Athens, Georgia Museum of Art; Wichita Museum of Art; Poughkeepsie, Vassar College Art Gallery, Philip Pearlstein, September 1970 - March 1971, cat. no. 71
Denver Art Museum, American Paintings and Sculpture from the Whitney Museum, May - July 1973
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, American Paintings of the 60s and 70s: The Real, The Ideal, The Fantastic, Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, April - May 1980
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, The Long Island Collections, A Century of Art: 1880-1980, January - March 2009

Literature

Whitney Museum of American Art, Catalogue of the Collection: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1974, p. 79

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There are scattered liquid accretions most noticeably in the following locations: 17 inches from the bottom edge and 12 inches from the right edge; and 40 1/2 inches from the bottom edge and 24 inches from the right edge. Under ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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