Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection | Live Sale

Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection | Live Sale

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Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection

Robert Indiana

Ballyhoo

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection

Robert Indiana

1928 - 2018


Ballyhoo

signed, titled, dated 1961 and inscribed COENTIES SLIP - NYC (on the overlap)

oil on canvas

60 by 48 in.

152.4 by 121.9 cm.

Executed in 1961.

Mrs. William Adolph, New York (acquired directly from the artist)

Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, 4 May 1974, lot 533 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)

Acquired from the above in 1978 by the present owner

Geraldine Norman, "Art Works of the 1960s Break Auction Records," London Times, 7 May 1974, p. 16 

David Shirey, "Arts Market," Arts Magazine, vol. 48, June 1974, p. 75. illustrated

Carl Weinhardt Jr., Robert Indiana, New York 1990, p. 55, illustrated in color

Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres. sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et des tous les pays par un groupe d'écrivains spécialistes français et étrangers, vol. 7, Paris 1999, p. 342 

Exh. Cat., Portland Museum of Art; Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Love and the American Dream: The Art of Robert Indiana, June 1999 - January 2000, pp. 21, 27 

Susan Elizabeth Ryan, Robert Indiana: Figures of Speech, New Haven 2000, pp. 81, 92, 101, 268, 277

Allison Unruh, ed., Robert Indiana: New Perspectives, Ostfildern 2012, p. 120 

Exh. Cat., West Bretton, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Robert Indiana: Sculpture 1958-2018, March 2022 - April 2023, p. 39 

Simon Salama-Caro, Robert Indiana Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. P-1961-5, illustrated in color (online)

New York, David Anderson Gallery, Indiana / Forakis, April 1961 (titled as Bally Hoo)

Madrid, Círculo de Bellas Artes; Salamanca, DA2 Domus Atrium 2000; A Coruña, Kiosco Alfonso; New York, QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College, An American Odyssey 1945/1980 [Debating Modernism], April 2004 - January 2005, n.p., illustrated in color