Peter Halley - New Now London Wednesday, December 6, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
    Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
    Private Collection (acquired from the above)
    Christie's, South Kensington, 5 December 2005, lot 144
    Private Collection
    Phillips de Pury & Company, London, 12 February 2010, lot 28
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Conceptual Abstraction, 7 November - 21 December 1991
    Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Peter Halley, 27 March - 2 May 1992
    Des Moines Art Center, Peter Halley: Paintings 1989-1992, 3 October 1992 - 10 January 1993, pl. 10 (illustrated)

  • Literature

    Conceptual Abstraction, exh. cat., Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, 2012, p. 60 (illustrated)
    Christina Lodder, Maria Kokkori and Maria Mileeva, eds., Utopian reality : reconstructing culture in revolutionary Russia and beyond, Leiden, 2013, n.p. (illustrated)
    Skewed: Ruminations on the Writings and Works of Peter Halley, exh. cat., Galleria Mazzoli, Modena, 2016, p. 85 (illustrated)
    Peter Halley. Conduits: Paintings from the 1980s, exh. cat., Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, 2023, p. 54 (illustrated)

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

29

Soul Control

acrylic, fluorescent acrylic and Roll-a-Tex on 2 adjoined canvases
228.6 x 236.7 cm (90 x 93 1/4 in.)
Executed in 1991.

Estimate
£100,000 - 150,000 

Sold for £254,000

Contact Specialist

Charlotte Gibbs
Associate Specialist, Head of New Now
+44 20 7901 7993
CGibbs@phillips.com
 

New Now

London Auction 6 December 2023