Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964)
Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964)

Siebterseptemberneunzehnhunderdtsechsundneunzig No. 84

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Ugo Rondinone (b. 1964)
Siebterseptemberneunzehnhunderdtsechsundneunzig No. 84
signed, titled and dated 'No. 84 Siebterseptemberneunzehnhunderdtsechsundneunzig Ugo Rondinone 1997' (on the stretcher)
acrylic on canvas with Plexiglas plaque
diameter: 86 5/8in. (220cm.)
Painted in 1997
Provenance
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich.
James Cohan Gallery, New York.
Anon. sale, Phillips de Pury & Company New York, 10 November 2005, lot 62.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

‘Rondinone's TARGET paintings seem at first to be straight appropriations of American Pop, color-field, and hard-edge abstraction. In fact, these works are less copies than giddy impersonations their irony and impurity coming through their deceptively simple surfaces like a five o'clock shadow on a drag queen. Slightly blurred and clearly vibrating as if electric, these Kenneth-Nolands-on-parade jiggle and cavort’

(L. Hoptman, quoted in Against Nature, Parkett 52, 1998, p. 134). 

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