The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Evening Auction

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Auction Closed

November 9, 12:13 AM GMT

Estimate

35,000,000 - 45,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jasper Johns

(b. 1930)


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signed, dated 1986 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)

oil and encaustic wax on canvas

25 ⅝ by 33 ⅛ in. 65 by 84.1 cm.

Executed in 1986.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (LC# 308) 

Acquired from the above in August 1987 by the present owner

George Boudaille, Jasper Johns, New York, 1989, no. 103, p. 128, illustrated in color

Richard Holbrooke, A Movable Feast of American Art: The Official Residence of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Washington D.C., 2000, p. 4

Celestine Bohlen, "Building Art Collections for Artists of Diplomacy," The New York Times, 2 November 2000, p. E5, illustrated

Mark Stephen Archer, The New Formal: Interiors by James Aman, New York, 2016, p. 128, illustrated in color (in installation)

Roberta Bernstein, ed., Jasper Johns: Catalogue Raisonné of Painting and Sculpture, Volume 3, Painting, 1971-2014, New Haven, 2017, no. P255, pp. 158-159, illustrated in color 

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Paint and Painted, May 1993 - April 1995, n.p.

New York, The Waldorf Astoria (Residence of US Ambassador to the United Nations), Art in Embassies Loan to the United States Mission to the United Nations (Governor Bill and Barbara Richardson), June 1997, no. 10 (on loan) 

New York, The Waldorf Astoria (Residence of US Ambassador to the United Nations), Art in Embassies Loan to the United States Mission to the United Nations (Richard and Kati Marton Holbrooke), May 2000 - Winter 2001, no. 29 (on loan)

New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Visual Conversations: Selections from the Collection, September 2012 - April 2013

West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, A Remarkable Gathering: The Fisher Landau Family Collection, March - September 2022