John Baldessari

Duck/Bird/Midget/Man (in Top Hat and Cane)

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November 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

John Baldessari

1931 - 2020

Duck/Bird/Midget/Man (in Top Hat and Cane)

oil tint and vinyl on black and white photographs, in 4 artist's frames

overall: 72½ by 71¼ in.

184.2 by 181 cm.

Executed in 1988.

Sonnabend Gallery, New Yok
Lisson Gallery, London
Acquired from the above in May 1988 by the present owner

Patrick Pardo and Robert Dean, eds., John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Three: 1987-1993, New Haven, 2017, no. 1988.26, p. 99, illustrated in color

London, Lisson Gallery, John Baldessari, May - June 1988
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Paint and Painted: Paintings and Sculptures from the Collection, May 1993 - April 1995
Harrisburg, Susquehanna Art Museum, The Emerging Image: Selected Contemporary Photography, March - May 1999
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Shared Vision: Photographs from the Collections of Emily Fisher Landau and Anne E. and M. Anthony Fisher, October 1998 - November 1999
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Zoo Story: An Exhibition of Animals in Art - for the Young and the Young at Heart, December 2005 - October 2006
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Imagination Noir, January - April 2009

Catalogue note