Roger Brown - New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art New York Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Phillips
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  • Provenance

    Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
    James and Maureen Dorment, Rumson, New Jersey
    Private Collection, Chicago
    Sotheby's, New York, March 1, 2019, lot 314
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Institute for Art and Urban Resources at P.S.1, Image into Pattern: Paintings by Roger Brown, Robert Gordy, and John Tweddle, April 27–June 15, 1980
    Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roger Brown, October 5, 1980–April 12, 1981, pp. 16-17 (illustrated, p. 16)
    Tampa, South Florida Art Galleries; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Roger Brown: Selected Paintings 1973-1983, August 3–December 2, 1984
    Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; Coral Gables, University of Miami, Lowe Art Museum; Des Moines Art Center; Roger Brown, August 13, 1987–June 12, 1988, no. 32, p. 58 (illustrated)
    Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia; Kunsthalle Basel; Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum, Parallel Visions, October 18, 1992–December 12, 1993, no. 246, pp. 310-311 (illustrated, p. 310)

  • Literature

    Sam Hunter, New Directions: Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporation Collection, Princeton, 1981, p. 39
    Timothy W. Luke, Show of Force: Power, Politics, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions, Durham, 1992, p. 192

81

Jonestown

oil on canvas
72 1/8 x 72 1/8 in. (183.2 x 183.2 cm)
Painted in 1980.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

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New Now: Modern & Contemporary Art

New York Auction 25 September 2024