Provenance
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Sale: Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, Contemporary Art, May 17, 2007, lot 59
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
London, Tate Modern, John Baldessari: Pure Beauty , October 13, 2009 – January 10, 2010; Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, February 11 - April 25, 2010; Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 27 – September 12, 2010; New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 17, 2010 - January 9, 2011
Literature
J. Morgan and L. Jones, John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009, p. 283 (illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
Something that is part of my personality is seeing the world slightly askew. It’s a perceptual stance. The real world is absurd sometimes, so I don’t make a conscious
attempt, but because I come at it in a certain way, it seems really strange.
JOHN BALDESSARI

(John Baldessari, interviewed by Nancy Bowen, On Art and Artists, produced by Lyn Blumenthal, Kate Horsfield, 1979).

In The Overlap Series: Street Scene and Reclining Person (with Shoes), 2000, Baldessari’s perpetual challenge of conventions is brilliantly captured. In this powerful photographic work comprised of a series of seemingly unrelated images, Baldessari thoughtfully arranges a composition that presents, explores, and even exploits its own imagery as if through the lens of a distorted dream. Here, the sole of a shoe extends from a sidewalk lined with cars, palm trees, and an unassuming pedestrian. The silhouette of the reclining man’s left shoe is hand-drawn over the street scene with acrylic and crayon in Baldessari’s famed primary blue. Through this sequenced arrangement, the composition emerges as a narrative; the mystery of the story is left to the viewer to unfold. Through this treatment, the single frames become sharper and stronger, and reveal further detail when paired with a seemingly mismatched image.

The wearer of the men’s shoes lays deserted on a seaside hill, somewhere far from the prosaic public world captured in the larger image. The remote scene and the lifeless body suddenly seem to be victim to foul-play. With the reclining leg extending from the car featured in one image, one can half imagine the figure laying still in the trunk, the fool of fraud or corruption. The cropping of the images is also an effective means of removing the identity of both the reclining man and the street scene, rendering them generic as if plucked from a dream. As the dream further unfolds, we are reminded of the teaching in Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams;
the faces of people in dreams are often vague or indistinct while other trivial or more mundane things often assume enormous importance. The contrast of familiar and innocuous scenes with colorful nightmares opens the images up for questioning; our perception of ordinary images will never be the same.

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John Baldessari

The Overlap Series: Street Scene and Reclining Person (with Shoes)

2000
digital photographic prints, acrylic, and crayon, mounted on Sintra
overall: 61 x 84 in. (154.9 x 213.4 cm)

Estimate
$350,000 - 550,000

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S & M
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Elke
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Humidity
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Ed Ruscha
99% Angel, 1% Devil
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Mao
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Steven Parrino
Jerk Left, Jerk Right
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Cady Noland
Clip on Method
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Rudolf Stingel
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Andy Warhol
Nine Jackies
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Joan Mitchell
The Lake
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Alexander Calder
Model for Rosenhof
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Christopher Wool
Untitled
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John Baldessari
A Movie: Directional Piece Where People Are Walking (Version A)
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Donald Judd
Untitled 90-9 Donaldson
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Anselm Kiefer
Selbstportrait
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Zhang Huan
Ash Skull No. 6
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Arshile Gorky
Study for Agony
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Radium 23
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John Chamberlain
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Johns White Numbers
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Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #53
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John Baldessari
The Overlap Series: Street Scene and Reclining Person (with Shoes)
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Anselm Reyle
Life Enigma
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Cindy Sherman
Untitled #467
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Yoshitomo Nara
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