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£254,000
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£100,000
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£150,000
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ARTIST
Peter Halley
Size
228.6 x 236.7 cm (90 x 93 1/4 in.)
Description
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
Medium
acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Roll-a-Tex on 2 adjoined canvases
Signature
Executed in 1991.
Provenance
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Private Collection (acquired from the above)
Christie's, South Kensington, 5 December 2005, lot 144
Private Collection
Phillips de Pury & Company, London, 12 February 2010, lot 28
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Conceptual Abstraction, exh. cat., Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, 2012, p. 60 (illustrated)
Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori and Maria Mileeva, eds., Utopian reality : reconstructing culture in revolutionary Russia and beyond, Leiden, 2013, n.p. (illustrated)
Skewed: Ruminations on the Writings and Works of Peter Halley, exh. cat., Galleria Mazzoli, Modena, 2016, p. 85 (illustrated)
Peter Halley. Conduits: Paintings from the 1980s, exh. cat., Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, 2023, p. 54 (illustrated)
Exhibited
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Conceptual Abstraction, 7 November - 21 December 1991
Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Peter Halley, 27 March - 2 May 1992
Des Moines Art Center, Peter Halley: Paintings 1989-1992, 3 October 1992 - 10 January 1993, pl. 10 (illustrated)