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Jack Whitten

Escalation I I (x² + y² = 1) for Alexander Grothendieck

signed, titled, dated Dec. 2014 and inscribed (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

48 by 48 in. 

121.9 by 121.9 cm.

Executed in December 2014.

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Jack Whitten
Escalation I I (x² + y² = 1) for Alexander Grothendieck

signed, titled, dated Dec. 2014 and inscribed (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

48 by 48 in. 

121.9 by 121.9 cm.

Executed in December 2014.

Provenance

ZENO X GALLERY, Antwerp, Belgium

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibition

Antwerp, ZENO X GALLERY, Jack Whitten: Escalation, April - June 2015

Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Jack Whitten: Jack's Jacks, March - September 2019, p. 17, illustrated in color (in installation), pp. 168-69, illustrated in color and p. 171, illustrated in color (detail)

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Jack Whitten: The Messenger, March - August 2025, pl. 135, p. 254, illustrated in color

Literature

Phil Taylor, “Critics’ Picks, Antwerp: Jack Whitten, Zeno X Gallery,” ARTFORUM (online)

Richard Shiff, Jack Whitten: Cosmic Soul, New York 2022, pl. 117, pp. 288-90 and p. 322, illustrated in color