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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan

Mark Tansey

The Myth of Depth

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November 19, 02:43 AM GMT

Estimate

2,500,000 - 3,500,000 USD

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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection, Japan

Mark Tansey

(b. 1949)


The Myth of Depth

signed, titled and dated 1984 (on the reverse)

oil on canvas

39 by 89 in.

99 by 226.1 cm.

Executed in 1984.

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York

Rose and Morton Landowne, New York (by 1988)

Christie's New York, 5 May 1992, lot 65

Private Collection

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, Mark Tansey: Paintings, March 1984

San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Mark Tansey: Recent Paintings and Drawings, May - June 1984

Theodore Wolff, "How New York Artists Speak to Each Other — on Canvas," Christian Science Monitor, April 1984, pp. 19-20 (text)

Eric Gibson, "The 'Triumph' of Mark Tansey," The New Criterion, Vol. 2, No. 9, May 1984, p. 69 (text)

Peter T. Marsh, ed., Contesting the Boundaries of Liberal and Professional Education: The Syracuse Experiment, Syracuse 1988, p. 251, illustrated

Thomas Kellein, Mark Tansey, Basel 1990, n.p. (text)

Arthur C. Danto, Mark Tansey: Visions and Revisions, New York 1992, p. 23 (text), pp. 58-59, illustrated in color and p. 136 (in diagram)

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art (and traveling), Mark Tansey, 1993-94, fig. 6, p. 53, illustrated in color and p. 54 (text)  

Caroline A. Jones, "La Politique de Greenberg et le Discours Postmoderniste," Les Cahiers du Musee national d’art Moderne, Iss. 45/46, 1993, p. 131 (text)

Mark C. Taylor, The Picture in Question: Mark Tansey & The Ends of Representation, Chicago 1999, p. 10 (text)

Erika Doss, Twentieth-Century American Art, Oxford 2002, p. 211 (text)

Kevin Hart, Postmodernism: Beginner's Guide, Oxford 2004, p. 40 (text)

Caroline A. Jones, Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses, Chicago 2005, pl. 21, n.p., illustrated in color and p. 357 (text)

Exh. Cat., Museum Kurhaus Kleve and Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Mark Tansey, 2005, p. 30 (text)

Pamela Johnson and Kathleen McLean, eds., Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, Minneapolis 2005, p. 543 (text)

Michael Kelly, "Danto on Tansey," in: Daniel Herwitz and Michael Kelly, eds., Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur C. Danto, New York 2007, p. 171 (text)

Ryan Gander and Stuart Bailey, Appendix Appendix: A Proposal for a TV Series, Zurich 2007, p. 72

Kassandra Nakas, "'Watch John Watching the Sea': Aquatic Metaphors in Rosalind Krauss' The Optical Unconscious," in: Ulrich Pfisterer and Christine Tauber, eds., Influence, Current, Source: Aquatic Metaphors in Art History, Bielefeld 2018, pp. 249-50 (text)