Richard Lindner

John and Dominique de Menil, Houston
William Copley, New York
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in October 1987

New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, Richard Lindner: Paintings, February 1956, no. 3
New York, The Museum of Modern Art; Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; St. Louis, Artist's Guild; The Toledo Museum of Art; Sarasota, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center; San Francisco Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; Detroit Institute of Arts, Americans 1963, May 1963 - November 1964, p. 62, illustrated
Städtisches museum schloßmorsbroich leverkusen; Baden-Baden, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Richard Lindner, October - November 1968; January - March 1969, no. 15, n.p., illustrated  
Hannover, Kestner-Gesellschaft; Berlin, Haus am Waldsee, Richard Lindner, December 1968 - January 1969, no. 30, p. 65, illustrated
Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California; Minnesota, Walker Art Center, Lindner, June - August 1969, no. 20
Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Kunsthaus Zürich; Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Richard Lindner, March 1974 - December 1974, no. 9, n.p., illustrated in color
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Richard Lindner: A Retrospective Exhibition, May - July 1977, p. 8, illustrated in color
Saint-Paul de Vence, Fondation Maeght; Liège, Musée Saint-Georges, Richard Lindner, May - October 1979, no. 7, p. 59, illustrated
Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Munich, Haus der Kunst, Richard Lindner: Paintings and Watercolors, 1948 - 1977, October 1996 - April 1997, cat. no. 20, p. 61, illustrated in color

Wieland Schmied, "Richard Lindner and the Human Being as a Toy," Studio International, no. 906, December 1968, p. 253, illustrated
Dore Ashton, Richard Lindner, New York, 1969, pl. 54, p. 81, illustrated
Rolf-Gunter Dienst, Lindner, 1970, p. 9, illustrated
Alain Jouffroy, "Le grande jeu de Lindner," XXe Siècle, no. 36, June 1974, p. 34, illustrated

This work is in good condition overall. There is general evidence of light handling and wear and rubbing around the extreme edges. There is evidence of light and fine craquleure. There are scattered light brown spot and drip accretions. There is a faint circular surface impression located approximately 17 3/4 inches from the bottom edge and 31 inches from the left edge. There is evidence of inpainting which fluoresces darkly under ultraviolet light in a 7 inch vertical line beginning 24 inches from the left and 15 1/2 inches from the bottom; as well as a 3 inch horizontal line beginning 8 inches from the bottom and 26 inches from the left edge. There is a minute spot loss located approximately 1 inch from the right edge and 14 inches from the top edge. Framed.
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