Lot 452
  • 452

Louise Lawler

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description

  • Louise Lawler
  • (Andy Warhol and Other Artists) Tulip
  • signed, dated 1982 and numbered 4/5 on the reverse
  • silver dye bleach print mounted on museum board
  • 38 1/2 by 60 1/2 in. 97.8 by 153.7 cm.
  • Executed in 1982, this work is number 4 from an edition of 5.

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Metro Pictures, Arrangements of Pictures, November - December 1982 (another example exhibited)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Louise Lawler: WHY PICTURES NOW, April - July 2017, p. 105, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Literature

Peter Schjeldahl, "Louise Lawler's Beguiling Institutional Critique," The New Yorker, 8 May 2017, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in excellent condition overall. Under very close inspection and only visible under certain raking late, extremely light surface scratches are visible. Unframed.
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Catalogue Note

"Among the early pieces in the MoMA show are two photographs, from 1982, of works by fellow-artists, including Sherrie Levine, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jenny Holzer, which Lawler had arranged in two different groups, on black backdrop paper, in one case, and tulip-red paper, in the other. Dominating each arrangement is a “Cow” poster, by Warhol, which he sent to Lawler in 1977, in return for the favor of giving him a roll of film at a party when he had run out." Peter Schjeldahl in "Louise Lawler's Beguiling Institutional Critique," The New Yorker, 8 May 2017