Malcolm Morley - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Thursday, May 19, 2022 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    The Pace Gallery, New York
    Private Collection
    Sotheby’s, New York, November 13, 2012, lot 71
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, The Pace Gallery, Malcolm Morley, December 2, 1988–January 7, 1989, no. 11, n.p. (illustrated)
    London, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, Malcolm Morley, September 11–October 12, 1990, pp. 9-10 (illustrated, p. 9)
    Paris, Musée national d'art Moderne Centre de création industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou; Toulouse-Labège, Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrénées, Malcolm Morley, June 2–December 31, 1993, pp. 129, 309 (illustrated, p. 129)
    London, Hayward Gallery, Malcolm Morley in Full Colour, June 15–August 27, 2001, no. 35, pp. 90–91, 145 (illustrated, pp. 90-91)
    Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Picasso Mania: Picasso et l'Art Contemporain, October 7, 2015–February 29, 2016. p. 276–277 (illustrated)

  • Literature

    Malcolm Morley 1965–1995, Fundación la Caixa, Madrid, exh. cat., 1995, p. 41 (illustrated)
    Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Malcolm Morley: Itineraries, London, 2001, pl. 135, pp. 194–151, 252 (illustrated, p. 150)

140

Aegean Crime

oil and wax on canvas
78 x 138 1/2 in. (198.1 x 351.8 cm)
Executed in 1987.

Estimate
$150,000 - 200,000 

Sold for $327,600

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20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 19 May 2022