LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil on canvas
Measurements:
53.98 in. (137.10 cm.) (height) by 84.21 in. (213.90 cm.) (width)
Markings:
signed and titled on the stretcher
Exhibited:
New York, Bianchini Gallery, The American Supermarket, September - October 1964; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, James Rosenquist, April - September 1972 ; Rome, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Contemporanae, November 1973 - February 1974, p. 198, illustrated; London, The Mayor Gallery, James Rosenquist: An Exhibition of Paintings 1961-1973, December 1974 - January 1975, cat. no. 6, illustrated in color; Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, James Rosenquist: Paintings, April - May 1975; London, The Mayor Gallery, James Rosenquist: Paintings from the Sixties , June - July 1982, cat. no. 4, illustrated in color; Denver, Denver Art Museum; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, James Rosenquist: Paintings 1961-1985, May 1985 - January 1987 (Houston and Des Moines venues only); Athens, School of Fine Arts, "The Factory"; Copenhagen, Museum of Modern Art, Everything That's Interesting Is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, January - April 1996, p. 231, illustrated in color
Literature:
John Rublowsky, Pop Art, New York, 1965, p. 174 (text); Lawrence Alloway, "Derealized Epic," Artforum 10, no. 10, June 1972, pp. 35-41, illustrated; Lawrence Alloway, American Pop Art, 1974, New York and London, p. 98 (text); Exh. Cat., Houston, The Menil Collection and The Museum of Fine Arts (and travelling), James Rosenquist: A Retrospective, 2003, pl. 47, p. 118, illustrated in color; Exh. Cat., New York, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., James Rosenquist: The Hole in the Middle of Time and the Hole in the Wallpaper, 2010, p. 11 (text); Sarah P. Hanson, "Value Judgments," Art + Auction 35, no. 2, October 2011, p. 105, illustrated in color and (text)
Provenance:
Ileana Sonnabend, New York; James Mayor Gallery, London; Dakis Joannou, Athens; Christie's, New York, May 11, 2005, Lot 54; Acquired by the present owner from the above