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Works from the Collection of Byron R. Meyer with Partial Proceeds to Benefit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Jess

Fig. 6–A Lamb for Pylaochos: Herko, N.Y. ’64: Translation #16

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November 19, 02:43 AM GMT

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120,000 - 180,000 USD

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Works from the Collection of Byron R. Meyer with Partial Proceeds to Benefit the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Jess

(1923 - 2004)


Fig. 6–A Lamb for Pylaochos: Herko, N.Y. ’64: Translation #16

titled (lower left); signed, titled, dated '66 and variously inscribed (on the reverse)

oil on canvas mounted on panel, in artist’s frame

26 ½ by 22 ½ in.

67.3 by 57.2 cm.

Executed in 1966.

Scott and Neva Beach, San Francisco (by 1974)

Philip Anglim, Los Angeles (by 1993)

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

Acquired from the above in 2004 by the present owner

New York, Odyssia Gallery, Translations by Jess, May - June 1971, no. 16, n.p. (text) and n.p., illustrated

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Projects: Translations by Jess, October - December 1974, no. 74.614

Dallas Museum of Replica Handbags s; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley; and Des Moines Art Center, Jess: Translations, Salvages and Paste-Ups, April - December 1977, no. 10, n.p. (text)

Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Boston, Museum of Replica Handbags s; and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Jess: A Grand Collage 1951-1993, September 1993 - December 1994, no. 33, p. 153, illustrated in color

Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, October 2010 - February 2011, pl. 55, p. 36 (text), p. 146, illustrated in color (detail) and pp. 186-87, illustrated in color

Rebecca Solnit, "Inventing San Francisco's art scene: 1950s bohemians altered the world from their lofts in the city," San Francisco Chronicle, 25 January 2004, p. E5, illustrated in color

Jennie Nunn, “Artful Living,” Modern Luxury, Spring 2013, illustrated in color (on the cover) and p. 91, illustrated in color (installed in Meyer residence, San Francisco, 2013) 

Tara Cooke McDowell, "House Work: Domesticity, Belonging, and Salvage in the Art of Jess, 1955-1991," University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley 2013, fig. 70, p. 188, illustrated in color