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Touch and Go
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Alfonso Ossorio (1901-1985)
Touch and Go
oil, sand, stones, glass, bone, shells, plastic, feathers, leather, fabric, metal, rope and nails on masonite in artist's frame
48½ x 72½ in. (123.1 x 184.1 cm.)
Executed in 1961.
Touch and Go
oil, sand, stones, glass, bone, shells, plastic, feathers, leather, fabric, metal, rope and nails on masonite in artist's frame
48½ x 72½ in. (123.1 x 184.1 cm.)
Executed in 1961.
Provenance
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Dwight Ripley, Greenport, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Dwight Ripley, Greenport, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
B. H. Friedman, Alfonso Ossorio, New York, nos. 43 and 114 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Betty Parsons Gallery, February-March 1961.
Special Notice
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