BOB THOMPSON | THE FROG AND THE PRINCESS

Collection of Jean and Theodore Wardell, Boynton Beach (acquired directly from the artist)

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York

Collection of Bart D. Reiss, New York

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Wollman Hall, New School Art Center, Bob Thompson, February - March 1969, no. 16, p. 16, illustrated in black and white

New York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery and Milwaukee, Haggerty Museum of Art, Bob Thompson: Meteor in a Black Hat, November 2005 - April 2006, p. 65, illustrated

Berlin, VeneKlasen/Werner, Self-Consciousness, April - June 2010

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Ticket to Reality, January - February 2014

“Bob Thompson’s world is transtextual (that is, the Aristotelian ‘either/or’ is supplanted by the Deleuzian ‘and… and…’), a theatre of fluidity where people of all colors – blue, green, yellow orange, brown, and black – move freely and exchange roles… Thompson’s work shows a freedom to reinterpret the old masters and fill old jars with new wine. His free use of color goes further than art, giving form to his desire for a world where people might change from one hue to another as they wish.”

(Manthia Diawara, “Bob Thompson: Whitney Museum of American Art, Artforum International, December 1998, Vol. 37, No. 4, p. 123)