JOHN BALDESSARI (B. 1931)
Lot 192

JOHN BALDESSARI (B. 1931)

Landscape with Face

Closed14 February 2014

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GBP 158,500

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JOHN BALDESSARI (B. 1931)
Landscape with Face
black and white photographs with vinyl paint in artist’s frame, in two parts
(i) 72.1/4 x 54.3/8in. (183.5 x 138.2cm.)
(ii) 55.3/4 x 23.1/4in. (141.6 x 59.1cm.)
Overall: 72 x 77in. (182.9 x 195.6 cm.)
Executed in 1988

Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
Massimo Valsecchii, Milan.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the early 1990’s.

Specialist note

’It’s like when I am in an airplane cabin and overhear two conversations: one says something and another one says something else. I could not have thought up those phrases on my own, and I respond to it by connecting one to the other, taking both out of their own context, and by making them a part of my imagination’

(J. Baldessari, quoted in C. van Bruggen, John Baldessari, New York 1990, p. 19).