Lot 81
Jonestown
Sold
$53,340
Est $50,000 - $70,000
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ARTIST
Roger Brown
Size
72 1/8 x 72 1/8 in. (183.2 x 183.2 cm)
Description

Medium
oil on canvas
Signature
Painted in 1980.
Provenance
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York Justin and Vivian Ebersman, 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
Literature
Mitchell Douglas Kahan, Roger Brown, exh. cat., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1980, pp. 16-17, 94 (illustrated, p. 16) Sam Hunter, New Directions: Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporation Collection, Princeton, 1981, p. 39 Barry Blinderman, "A Conversation with Roger Brown," Arts Magazine, May 1981 (illustrated) Timothy W. Luke, Show of Force: Power, Politics, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions, Durham, 1992, p. 192 Richard Axsom, Chicago Imagists, exh. cat., Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, 2011, pp. 111, 157 (illustrated, p. 111)
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 Atlanta, Nexus Gallery; Tampa, South Florida Art Galleries; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Roger Brown: Selected Paintings 1973-1983, May 3–December 2, 1984, p. 5, n.p. (illustrated, p. 5, n.p., front cover) 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)