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Robert Longo (b. 1953)
Lot 845

Robert Longo (b. 1953)

Untitled (Gretchen)

Fermé16 November 2018

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USD 396,500

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Robert Longo (b. 1953)
Untitled (Gretchen)
signed and titled 'Robert Longo Gretchen' (on the reverse)
charcoal and graphite on paper, in artist's frame
97 ½ x 60 in. (247.7 x 152 cm.)
Executed in 1980.

Metro Pictures, New York
Fredrik Roos, Stockholm
His sale; Christie's, New York, 4 May 1994, lot 248
Private collection, Los Angeles
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 23 September 2003, lot 146
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Note du spécialiste

“To thus consider Men in the Cities in retrospect and as a unified synthesis of its elements is to behold a misplaced drama, an obscure allegory that suggests both sexuality and human mortality.” (H. Fox, “In Civil War," Robert Longo, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989, p. 26).