Mark Morrisroe - 20th Century & Contemporary Art: Online Auction New York Monday, July 17, 2023 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, ClampArt, Mark Morrisroe (1959–1989), September 6–October 6, 2007 (another example exhibited)
    Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Familiar Feelings on the Boston Group, September 24–December 13, 2009, pp. 94, 102 (another example exhibited and illustrated, p. 102)
    New York, ClampArt, Mark Morrisroe (1959–1989): Collected Works, March 24–April 30, 2011 (another example exhibited)
    New York, ClampArt, Mark Morrisroe: Hello from Bertha, January 9–February 15, 2014 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Isla Leaver-Yap, "A Necessary Desire," Mousse Magazine, no. 25, September/October 2010, p. 79
    Beatrix Ruf and Thomas Seelig, eds., Mark Morrisroe, Zurich, 2011, (another example illustrated, titled as Young Pia Howard, no. 148)
    Fiona Johnstone, "The Pin-Up and the Corpse: Erotic Self-Representation and Terminal Illness in Mark Morrisroe's Aids Self Portraits," in Malady and Mortality: Illness, Disease and Death in Literary and Visual Culture, Helen Thomas, ed., Newcastle upon Tyne, 2016, p. 115
    William Davie, "Mark Morrisroe in Boston: Creating Mark Morrisroe," Doris Press, July 23, 2021, online

125

Pre-Nympho Pia, Young Pia Howard (Nude in Bathtub)

signed "Pat Hearn" on the reverse and stamped by the Mark Morrisroe Estate
chromogenic print
image 15 1/2 x 15 1/2 in. (39.4 x 39.4 cm)
sheet 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)

Executed in 1982, this work is number 2 from an edition of 7.

Estimate
$5,000 - 7,000 

Sold for $3,810

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