Ross Bleckner United States, b. 1949
Poverty Bouquet, 1986
oil on linen
121.9 x 101.6 cm
48 x 40 in
framed: 137 x 116 x 5 cm
48 x 40 in
framed: 137 x 116 x 5 cm
Copyright The Artist
Provenance
Mary Boone Gallery, New YorkSaatchi Collection, London, 1986
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zürich
Thomas and Doris Ammann, Zürich
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale - May, 13, 2022
Exhibitions
New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Ross Bleckner, February 1987.Lawrence, University of Kansas, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art and Seattle Art Museum, New Work, New York, August 1988-January 1989.
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art and Kyoto, National Museum of Modern Art, Painting - Singular Object: A Perspective on Contemporary Art, November 1995-February 1996, p. 98, no. 46 (illustrated).
Zürich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Ross Bleckner, March-April 2007, no. 14 (illustrated).
Literature
R. Smith, "Art: In Bleckner Show, An Array of Past Motifs," The New York Times, 13 February 1987, p. C16."Ross Bleckner by Aimee Rankin," BOMB, 1 April 1987, n.p. (illustrated).
Mostly Mozart Festival, New York, Lincoln Center, Summer 1987 (illustrated on the poster).
D. Cameron, NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, Milan, 1987, p. 79 (illustrated).
S. Morgan, "Strange Days: An Interview with Ross Bleckner," Artscribe International, March/April 1988, p. 50 (illustrated).
D. Deitcher, "What Does Silence Equal Now?," in B. Wallis, M. Weems and P. Yenawine, eds., Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America, New York, 1999, pp. 97-98 (illustrated).
R. Milazzo, The Paintings of Ross Bleckner, Brussels, 2006, pp. 88-90, 136 and 422, pl. 35 (illustrated).
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