Dorothea Rockburne - 20th C. & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, November 13, 2019 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    André Emmerich Gallery, New York
    Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1988)
    Thence by descent to the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, André Emmerich Gallery, Dorothea Rockburne, New Paintings: Pascal and Other Concerns, March 5 - April 2, 1988
    Southhampton, Parrish Art Museum; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Dorothea Rockburne: In My Mind's Eye, June 19, 2011 - January 29, 2012, no. 20, p. 158 (illustrated, p. 84)

  • Literature

    Richard B. Woodward, "Too Restless for the Rules", The Wall Street Journal, August 2, 2011, online
    "Dorothea Rockburne with David Levi Strauss and Christopher Bamford", The Brooklyn Rail, July - August 2011, online
    John Pohl, "Math Morphs Seamlessly Into Art", Montreal Gazette, December 24, 2011, p. F1 (illustrated)

Property from an Important Private Collection, Florida

101

Oxymoron

signed, titled and dated "OXYMORON Rockburne 87/88" on the stretcher
oil on gessoed linen
51 7/8 x 49 3/8 x 7 in. (131.8 x 125.4 x 17.8 cm.)
Executed in 1987-1988.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $93,750

Contact Specialist
John McCord
Head of Day Sale, Morning Session
New York
+1 212 940 1261

20th C. & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 13 November 2019