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John Baldessari

Choosing (A Game for Two Players): Turnips

Live auction begins on:

February 25, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Bid

35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

John Baldessari

1931 - 2020


Choosing (A Game for Two Players): Turnips

chromogenic print, mounted, in seven parts

each: 13½ by 8⅛ in.

each: 34.3 by 20.6 cm.

Executed in 1971-72.

Galerie MTL, Brussels

Private Collection, Belgium

Estate of Nina Castelli Sundell, New York (acquired from the above)

Christie's New York, 14 May 2015, lot 490 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Milan, Galleria Toselli, John Baldessari: Choosing, Aligning, Floating, April 1972

New York, Christine Burgin Gallery and Santa Monica, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles 1970-75, February - May 1991

Thomas Lawson, "The Theatre of the Mind: John Baldessari," Parkett: John Baldessari/ Cindy Sherman, No. 29, 1991, pp. 40-41, illustrated in color

Jerry Saltz, "John Baldessari: The Curious Discovery of A+I(Ov.)=8, or the Smile of Reason," Forum International, Vol. 14, September - October 1991, p. 72, illustrated

Patrick Pardo and Robert Dean, eds., John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné Volume One: 1956-1974, New Haven 2013, no. 1972.7, p. 194, illustrated in color