Lot 845
845
Robert Longo (b. 1953)
Robert Longo (b. 1953)

Untitled (Gretchen)

Details
Robert Longo (b. 1953)
Untitled (Gretchen)
signed and titled 'Robert Longo Gretchen' (on the reverse)
charcoal and graphite on paper, in artist's frame
97 ½ x 60 in. (247.7 x 152 cm.)
Executed in 1980.
Provenance
Metro Pictures, New York
Fredrik Roos, Stockholm
His sale; Christie's, New York, 4 May 1994, lot 248
Private collection, Los Angeles
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 23 September 2003, lot 146
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
R. Price, Men in Cities 1979-1982, New York, 1986, n.p. (illustrated).
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art and Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Robert Longo 1976-1989, September 1989-September 1990, p. 72, no. 9 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“To thus consider Men in the Cities in retrospect and as a unified synthesis of its elements is to behold a misplaced drama, an obscure allegory that suggests both sexuality and human mortality.” (H. Fox, “In Civil War," Robert Longo, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989, p. 26).

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