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The Mo Ostin Collection

Neil Jenney

Risk and Hazard

Auction Closed

May 19, 10:59 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Mo Ostin Collection

Neil Jenney

b. 1945


Risk and Hazard

titled (lower center)

acrylic and graphite on canvas, in artist's frame

61⅛ by 65¾ in.

155.3 by 167.6 cm.

Executed in 1969.

Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in March 1988 by the present owner
Melvin Konner, “Why the Reckless Survive,” The Sciences, vol. 27, no. 3, May - June 1987, p. 2, illustrated in color
Izhar Patkin, “Two Artists Sitting under a Tree: Chez Neil Jenney's Lumberyard,” Artforum, vol. 31, no. 2, October 1992, p. 81, illustrated in color
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Neil Jenney: The Bad Years 1969-70, March - April 2001, pp. 20-21 and 72, illustrated in color