John Wesley - Modern & Contemporary Art: Evening & Day Sale London Thursday, June 27, 2024 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Zwirner & Wirth, New Yok
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Zwirner & Wirth, John Wesley: A Collection, 5 May–23 June 2006, n.p (illustrated)
    Essen, Museum Folkwang, Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection, 5 May–1 July 2007, p. 279
    New York, High Line, John Wesley: Nine Female Inmates of the Cincinnati Workhouse Participating in a Patriotic Tableau, 3 December 2014–5 January 2015

  • Literature

    Cait Munro, High Line Art Announces John Wesley Billboard, Artnet, 23 November 2014, online
    Linda Norden, 'John Wesley's Umami', Chinati Foundation newsletter, vol. 25, no. 36, October 2019, p. 18

Property of a Prominent Private European Collection

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Nine female inmates of the Cincinnati workhouse participating in a patriotic tableau

signed and dated 'John Wesley 1976' on the reverse of the left part
signed, titled and dated '"9 FEMALE INMATES OF THE CINCINNATI WORKHOUSE PARTICIPATING IN A PATRIOTIC TABLEAU" John Wesley 1976' on the reverse of the right part

acrylic on linen, diptych
each: 182.9 x 182.9 cm (72 x 72 in.)
overall: 182.9 x 367 cm (72 x 144 1/2 in.)

Painted in 1976.

Estimate
£150,000 - 200,000 

Sold for £190,500

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Louise Simpson
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Modern & Contemporary Art: Evening & Day Sale

London Auction 27 June 2024