Lot 738
738
Charles Bell (1935-1995)
Charles Bell (1935-1995)

Gin

Details
Charles Bell (1935-1995)
Gin
signed 'C. BELL' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated 'C. BELL '77 "GIN"' (on the overlap)
oil on canvas
60 x 72 in. (152.4 x 183 cm.)
Painted in 1977.
Provenance
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York
Prudential Collection, Newark, 1980
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 12 May 2004, lot 167
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
L. Meisel, "Charles Bell," Arts Magazine, vol. 52, no. 5, January 1978, pp. 24-25 (illustrated).
L. Meisel, Photorealism, New York, 1980, p. 76, no. 141 (illustrated).
H. Geldzahler, Charles Bell: The Complete Works 1970-1990, New York, 1991, p. 64, no. 86 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, Charles Bell, November 1977, no. 3 (illustrated).
Phoenix Art Museum, New York Now, April-May 1979, p. 51 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

"Bell presents the various and complex contraptions that make up the playing surfaces of pinball machines. Bell might be likened to a precisionist in his affinity for basic architectural forms which these close-ups resemble, but what he chronicles is post-industrial leisure. If it is like architecture, Bell's subject matter is futuristic or crazily eclectic like Venturi and Rauch" (L. Meisel, "Charles Bell," Arts Magazine, January 1978, vol. 52, no. 5, p. 24).

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