Sonnabend Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exhibited
Boston, Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Changing Contexts: Artschwager/Baldessari, October 27 - November 29, 1989 Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Explosive Photography, January 18 - April 25, 2004, p. 36 (illustrated, p. 18; erroneously dated 1990)
Literature
John Baldessari and Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, San Francisco, 1988, p. 17 (original illustration for the present work illustrated) Patrick Pardo and Robert Dean, John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Three: 1987-1993, New Haven, 2015, no. 1989.24, p. 177 (illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
"[T]hose works with dots in front of the faces—I did them for two or three years, and then it becomes a kind of branding, like Warhol or Lichtenstein.” John Baldessari
Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, New York