“Once I learned about the ancient Greeks’ system of understanding painting—that you’re looking through a window onto the scene, and that the frame is basically the architectural foreground, the window presenting the illusion—I couldn’t stop drawing frames. I’m still doing it.”
—Neil Jenney
- Provenance
  Edward R. Broida, Los Angeles
  Thence by descent to the present owner
- Exhibited
  Berkeley, University Art Museum, University of California; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum; Basel, Kunsthalle, Neil Jenney: Paintings and Sculpture 1967–1980, April 15, 1981–June 27, 1982, no. 26, p. 53

Neil Jenney

Biosphere #3

oil on panel, in artist's frame, in two parts
31 x 258 x 5 in. (78.7 x 655.3 x 12.7 cm)
Painted in 1971–1975.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000

Sold for $323,850

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Annie Dolan
NY Head of Auctions and Specialist, Head of Sale, Morning Session
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New York Auction 15 May 2024