Lot 479
  • 479

Peter Halley

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Peter Halley
  • Out There
  • signed twice and dated 2013 on the reverse
  • acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Roll-a-Tex on joined canvases
  • 58 by 62 1/2 in. 147.3 by 158.8 cm.

Provenance

Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Exhibited

New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Peter Halley and Alessandro Mendini, May - June 2013, p. 29, illustrated in color

Literature

Exh. Cat., Prague Biennale 6, 2013, p. 51, illustrated in color
Juan Bolivar, “Peter Halley in Conversation with Juan Bolivar for Turps Banana," Turps Banana Magazine, Issue 14, Spring 2014, p. 7, illustrated in color
Cristina Guadalupe Galván, “Colour Surfacing, Peter Halley’s 2D World,” DAMN Magazine, No. 51, July - August 2015, p. 66, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The canvases are joined on the reverse and are well intact. There is some very light wear along the extreme turning edges. The surface texture is due to the artist’s working method. Under Ultraviolet light inspection there is no evidence of restoration. Unframed.
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