ELMER BISCHOFF | Untitled (#2 Studio Interior)

Theophilus Brown, San Francisco (acquired directly from the artist)
871 Fine Arts, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1992

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Greenville County Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection; Laguna Beach, Laguna Art Museum, Elmer Bischoff: 1947-1985, December 1985 - January 1987, cat. no. 40, pp. 54 and 66, illustrated 
San Francisco, Gallery Paule Anglim, The Drawings of Elmer Bischoff, Sidney Gordin and Erle Loran, 1988 
Oakland Museum, Elmer Bischoff: Drawings for a Dialogue, March - June 1991

Susan Landauer, Ed., Elmer Bischoff: The Ethics of Paint, Berkeley 2001, cat. no. 164, p. 193, illustrated (erroneously titled Untitled (Julius Hatofsky, Alvin Light, Joe Oddo))

This work is in excellent condition overall. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat at the top two corners and window matted. There are artist's pinholes at the corners and the sheet is slightly undulated. Under close inspection, there are minor creases to the lower right and top left corners. Only visible under very close inspection, there are a few scattered unobtrusive pinpoint surface accretions. Framed under Plexiglas.
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