Ralph Goings

O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York
Vivian and Bill Jaeger, New York
Christie's, New York, November 14, 2002, lot 167
Private Collection (acquired from the above sale)
Christie's, New York, November 11, 2004, lot 199
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Milwaukee Art Center, Directions 3: Eight Artists, June - August 1971, n.p., illustrated
Kunstverein Hamburg; Kunstverein Hanover; Kunstverein Cologne; Stuttgart, Württemmbergischer Kunstverein, U.S.A.: West Coast, 1971
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, New/Photo Realism: Painting and Sculpture of the 1970s, April - May 1974, pp. 16 and 34, illustrated 
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism, April - July 1991, pp. 55 and 91, illustrated
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island Collects, May - August 2002, pp. 66 and 73, illustrated

Louis K. Meisel, Photorealism, New York, 1980, pl. 590, p. 282, illustrated in color
Linda Chase, Ralph Goings, New York, 1988, pl. 22, p. 28, illustrated
Constance Schwartz, "In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism," Sun Storm Arts Magazine, April 1991, p. 29, illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. There is very light evidence of handling along the edges. Under very close inspection, a pinpoint brown media accretion is visible in the blue sky just left of the Sizzle Kitchen sign and above the artist’s signature in the lower right corner and there is a light pinpoint media accretion in the lower right corner of the street. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, there is no evidence of restoration. Framed.
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"My interest in all of the things I've painted has been their visual aura, and in the process of translating the image to paint on canvas, I do things to enhance this. Painting from a photograph serves a similar function as a frame in that it helps to isolate this fragment of reality like a frame does. And in the process I use–taking the photograph, projecting it, drawing it, and then painting it–puts four different levels of interpretation between the actuality and the finished painting. During these steps, the thing that is out there that was the beginning loses its importance. What's here in the painting is ultimately what I'm after...and to have people say look at this, I hadn't noticed this before, I hadn't seen reality in this way." 
Ralph Goings