Lot 211
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John Baldessari (b. 1931)
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John Baldessari (b. 1931)

The Pot with Nine Removals

Details
John Baldessari (b. 1931)
The Pot with Nine Removals
(i) signed and dated 'BALDESSARI 96' (lower right) and numbered '7/12' (lower left)
Iris print on hand-cut Somerset Velvet, in ten parts
each: 23 3/8 x 30 ½in. (59.5 x 77.7cm.)
overall: 94 x 92in. (238.8 x 233.7cm.)
Executed in 1996, this work is number seven from an edition of twelve
Provenance
Donated by the Artist, courtesy of Sprüth Magers, Berlin/London.
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Lot Essay

‘I began seeing paintings in a row in a museum as being like frames in a movie. So I got fantasizing…what was the frame before this van Gogh painting and what was the frame after? If you had a wide-angle shot of the painting what would it look like? I started thinking about painting in cinegraphic terms.’
(J. Baldessari, quoted in Baldessari: While Something Is Happening Here, Something Else Is Happening There, Works 1988-1999, exh. cat., Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 1999, p. 21).

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