Live Auction 14188Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
James Rosenquist (1933-2017)
Lot 540 Property from a Private Collection

James Rosenquist (1933-2017)

Small Doorstop

Closed18 May 2017

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USD 137,500

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James Rosenquist (1933-2017)
Small Doorstop
signed, titled and numbered 'SMALL DOORSTOP J. ROSENQUIST VIII/X' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas, light bulbs and cable
24 1/4 x 36 1/4 x 9 in. (61.5 x 92 x 23 cm.)
Executed in 1963-1967. This work is number eight from an edition of ten.

Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich
Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs
Their sale: Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 2008, Lot 194
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

“Rosenquist has managed to constantly surprise us, to make us look at things twice. His work is multivalent. It is precise yet ambiguous, reverberating in ways that more explicit works cannot. He has tackled some of the most important themes of his time. He has taken on the human condition, and yet he has remained idiosyncratic, antilogical.”

Walter Hopps, ‘Connoisseur of the Inexplicable’ in James Rosenquist A Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 2003, p. 15.