Robert Colescott (1925-2009)

The Phone Call

Details

Robert Colescott (1925-2009)
The Phone Call
signed and dated 'R Colescott 78' (lower right)
oil on canvas
84 x 65 3/8 in. (213.4 x 166.1 cm.)
Painted in 1978.

Provenance

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner, 1980

Literature

C. Brown, "Robert Colescott—Humor Through Inversion," Artweek, 16 September 1978, p. 3.

Exhibited

San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Robert Colescott: Recent Paintings, August-September 1978.

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Kathryn Widing

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拍品專文

"I discover the nuanced sophistication in his raucous imagery. It's like hearing a jazz master transform some silly pop tune that, thus estranged, begins to seem not so silly after all. Colescott rips into crude iconography to free crazy energies it entombs." (P. Schjeldahl, "The Social Comedian," Village Voice, 28 May 1998).

The Phone Call

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