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Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation

Ross Bleckner

The Fifth Examined Life

Auction Closed

May 14, 09:30 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation

Ross Bleckner

b. 1949


The Fifth Examined Life

oil and wax on linen

96 by 72 in.

243.8 by 182.9 cm.

Executed in 1989.

Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in April 1989 by the present owner

Donald Kuspit, "Reviews: Ross Bleckner," Artforum, April 1991, p. 125

Mark Stevens, "Art of Darkness, "New York Magazine, 13 March 1995, p. 68

New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Ross Bleckner, April 1991, illustrated in color (on the cover), n.p., illustrated in color

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art and Valencia, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno Centro Julio González, Ross Bleckner, March - March 1996, no. 62, n.p., illustrated in color