Music

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JOHN BALDESSARI (1930-2020)
Music
oil tint and vinyl paint on two joined photographs, in two parts
90 x 36 1/2 in. (228.6 x 92.7 cm.)
Executed in 1987.

Provenance

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Texas Gallery, Houston
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

P. Pardo and R. Dean eds., John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné Volume Three: 1987-1993, New Haven, 2015, p. 70, no. 1987.54 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Kunstmuseum Bonn and Bonner Kunstverein, John Baldessari: Music, May-July 2007, p. 73 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“I’m less interested in what is than what is not art,” he said. “It’s the secondary thing that interests me… how you move stuff into the area of art that’s not there” (J. Baldessari, quoted in John Baldessari: Work 1966-1980, exh. cat., New York, The New Museum, 1961, p. 43).

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