尼特·羅曼

Maccarone, New York

Private Collection, USA

Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. In keeping with the artist's working process and choice of media, there are intermittent tension cracks along the edges of the work. There are some light handling marks on the uppermost edge. Very close inspection reveals a minute surface irregularity to the top left of the bullet hole. No restoration is apparent when examined under ultraviolet light.
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“A lot of my art is about violence and crime. I also really like shaped canvases. I’ve always loved Ellsworth Kelly, I love all the Brazilians, the Neo concrete people like Lygia Clark. I always wanted to make these shaped canvas objects but I didn’t want to make a Blinky Palermo with jagged edges; I wanted to make something else. The bullet holes were a good opportunity to have the cultural things that I’m interested in come together with that.” (Nate Lowman in conversation with Asher Penn in: Bad Day Magazine, Issue 5, Summer 2009, n.p.).