Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist (2002)
Catalogue Essay
Raymond Pettibon’s engagement with comic books, punk rock, William Blake and Samuel Beckett, among others, have rendered a unique and deeply personal body of work. The themes that repeatedly surface throughout Raymond Pettibon’s oeuvre are routinely cinematic in scope and emotion. Encompassing the spectrum of American culture, Pettibon’s drawings and paintings combine idiosyncratic images with often provocative and subversive text, both borrowed and written by Pettibon himself. In his baseball works, for instance, he does not purely adulate the heroicness of the ball players but rather, dwells on the sordidness of their reality. The artist himself explains, “baseball has probably been my favorite since I was a child. Some of the others, like horse racing—that came in later—but football, basketball, track and field... I'm not obsessed with any of those. The reason why I keep coming back to certain images is probably most often that there's a visual quality that works for me, and that can be as simple as drawing horse races.I think whether you are throwing the pitch or batting the ball, you do have that sense of movement and for an artist like myself whose work is about that one moment that can be a reason I do that. But sports, and baseball in particular in America, there's a lot more to it, there's a lot more nuances. Not just in the game itself—but that's also important to. My work on the subject does tap into some of the nuances of the game—the pitching of the baseball for instance, or hitting a baseball—but also it says a lot about what goes on off the field as well about the society in general. It's kind of a microcosm of the society as a whole” (Raymond Pettibon in an interview with Art:21, reproduced on www.pbs.org).

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Raymond Pettibon

No Title (Measuring Up)

1998
Oil on canvas.
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm).
Signed and dated “Raymond Pettibon 6-98” on the reverse.

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$100,000 - 150,000

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Paint Cans (from Dear Ketel One drinker hello again)
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Freischwimmer 20
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Ohne Titel (Geige)
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Untitled
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No Title
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Albert Oehlen
Das Gewicht der Ladung
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Mark Grotjahn
Untitled (Pink Butterfly Green mg03)
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Once Together / Apart
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The Veils
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Thomas Ruff
Zycles 3041
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Piotr Uklański
Untitled (Eagle, American)
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Some fucked up notion of a dream
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Raymond Pettibon
No Title (Measuring Up)
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Andy Warhol
Detail of the Last Supper / Be a Somebody with a Body
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Untitled (After Sam)
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Steven Parrino
Untitled
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Richard Prince
Untitled (Tire Planter, black)
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Jack Goldstein
Untitled
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Andy Warhol
Vesuvius
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Tom Sachs
Chanel Fountain
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Ross Bleckner
Pausing and inhaling
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Raoul De Keyser
Untitled
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Keith Haring
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Donald Judd
Untitled 1978 (7.78 Judd)
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Agnes Martin
Untitled
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Sunrise, august, west
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Wenn ich mir was Wünschen dürfte [M.D. auf Omas Tapete]
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Le mythe de Sisyphe
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NEW MUSEUM
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