Jablonka Galerie, Cologne Reinhard Onnasch, Berlin Acquired from the above via Luhring Augustine, New York by the present owner in November 1993
Exhibited
Cologne, Jablonka Galerie, Peter Halley, November 11 - December 17, 1988, n.p. (illustrated) Kunstverein München, Gober, Halley, Kessler, Wool: Four Artists from New York, September 15 - October 22, 1989, p. 43 (illustrated) Antwerp, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, The Future of the Object! A Selection of American Art; Minimalism and After, May 20 - July 28, 1990, p. 83 (illustrated) Des Moines Art Center, Peter Halley: Paintings 1989-1992, October 3, 1992 - January 10, 1993, pl. 2, p. 30 (illustrated)
Literature
Achille Bonita Olivia, Superart, Milan, 1988, p. 17 (illustrated) John Miller, "Peter Halley's Geometry and the Social", Artscribe, no. 74, March - April 1989, p. 64 (illustrated) Jorge Luis Marzo, "L'abstracció geomètrica americana. L'ingrés en el social: Peter Halley i la crítica tecnològica", Quaderns: Fundació Caixa de Pensions, no. 44, September 1989, p. 42 (illustrated) Bernhard Keber and Reinhard Onnasch, Bestände Onnasch, Berlin, 1992, p. 281 (illustrated) Cory Reynolds, ed., Peter Halley: Maintain Speed, New York, 2000, p. 203 (illustrated) Cara Jordan and Clément Dirié, eds., Peter Halley: Paintings of the 1980s, The Catalogue Raisonné, Zurich, 2019, p. 164 (illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
“I strongly believe in making art that can be looked at quickly. We live in a society of information and cultural overload…I want to make something explosive and immediate. And hopefully explosive and immediate each time you go by and take a quick look at it.” - Peter Halley
Property from a Distinguished Midwestern Collection
signed, titled, inscribed and dated "BLACK CELL PETER HALLEY 1988 Peter Halley Peter Halley" on the reverse acrylic, fluorescent acrylic, Flashe and Roll-a-Tex on canvas 70 x 119 in. (177.8 x 302.3 cm.) Executed in 1988.