Bodyhammer: .9MM

Details

Robert Longo (b. 1953)
Bodyhammer: .9MM
charcoal on paper

94 x 48 in. (238.8 x 121.9 cm.)
Executed in 2008

Provenance

Metro Pictures, New York.
Private Collection.
Anon. sale, Compagnie Marocaine des Oeuvres et Objets d'Art (C.M.O.O.A.), Art Contemporain International, 24 March 2012, lot 32.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Exhibited

New York, Metro Pictures’ Upstairs Gallery, A New Ballardian Vision, 2017.

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