Lot 430
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Susan Rothenberg (b. 1945)
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Susan Rothenberg (b. 1945)

Running with Leg

Details
Susan Rothenberg (b. 1945)
Running with Leg
signed, titled and dated 'Running with Leg 1991-1992 S. Rothenberg' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
54 x 59 in. (137.1 x 149.8 cm.)
Painted in 1991-1992.
Provenance
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992
Exhibited
Boston, Museum of Fine Art, Susan Rothenberg: Painting from the Nineties, November 1999-January 2000.
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Lot Essay

I started to look at the horse image very closely and I ended up taking it apart, going back to the idea of parts and wholes. I usually thought of the horse images as being about parts and wholes. I used the leg parts to encircle a space and that space contained a frontal horse coming toward you. It almost looks human
-Susan Rothenberg

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