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JOHN BALDESSARI (1931-2020)
Lot 134 Property from an Important Private Collection

JOHN BALDESSARI (1931-2020)

Two Cars (One Red) in Different Environments

Closed13 May 2022

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USD 403,200

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JOHN BALDESSARI (1931-2020)
Two Cars (One Red) in Different Environments
acrylic and vinyl on photographs, in two parts
69 x 87 in. (175.3 x 221 cm.)
Executed in 1990.

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Private collection, Latvia
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 17 May 2007, lot 358
Private collection, New York
Halsey Minor, Los Angeles
His sale; Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 13 May 2010, lot 13
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

“For most of us photography stands for truth… But a good artist can make harder truth by manipulating forms or pushing paint around. It fascinates me how I can manipulate truth so easily by the way I juxtapose opposites or crop the image or take it out of context” (J. Baldessari, quoted in C. Van Bruggen, John Baldessari, New York, 1990, p. 214).