LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas with painted folding chair frame

Size Notes:

overall; canvas: (228.6 x 157.4 cm.)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 'JAMES ROSENQUIST 1964 "DIRECTOR"' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Los Angeles, Dwan Gallery, James Rosenquist, October-November 1964. Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, The Other Tradition, January-March 1966, p. 47. Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, James Rosenquist, January-February 1968, pp. 58-59, no. 24 (illustrated). Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, July- September 1968, n.p., no. 60 (illustrated). Kunsthalle Köln, James Rosenquist: Gemälde—Räume—Graphik, January-March 1972, p. 79, no 72 (illustrated). New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, James Rosenquist, April-September 1972, p. 82 (illustrated). New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, American Pop Art, April-June 1974, pp. xi and 93, no. 64, fig. 83 (incorrectly illustrated). Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, on loan, December 1975-April 1976. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, on loan, April-October 1976. Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, on loan, October 1976-October 1983. Denver Art Museum; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Des Moines Art Center; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Gallery; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Washington, D.C., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, James Rosenquist, May 1985-January 1987, pp. vi and 126 (illustrated). Milwaukee Art Center, on loan, February 1990-June 1994. Houston, Menil Collection and The Museum of Fine Arts; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, James Rosenquist: A Retrospective, May 2003-October 2004, p. 120, no. 49 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

H. Seldis, “Pop Artist Will Survive Trend,” Los Angeles Times, 7 November 1964, p. 74. J. Kind, Art Scene, July-August 1968, p. 11 (illustrated). J. C. Taylor, America As Art, Washington, D.C., 1976, p. 303 (illustrated). J. Goldman, James Rosenquist, New York, 1985, p. 126 (illustrated). James Rosenquist, exh. cat., Institut Valencià d'Art Modern Centre Julio Gonzalez, 1991, p. 32 (illustrated in color). James Rosenquist: The Early Pictures 1961-1964, exh. cat., New York, Gagosian Gallery, 1992, p. 98 (illustrated). M. Hand, The Passionate Collector: Robert B. Mayer’s Adventures in Art, Chicago, 2011, p. 78, 142 and 144 (installation views illustrated in color). Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2016, p. 337.

Provenance:

Dwan Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1964