Noses & Ears, Etc.: Blood, Fist, and Head (With Nose and Ear)

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John Baldessari (b. 1931)
Noses & Ears, Etc.: Blood, Fist, and Head (With Nose and Ear)
three dimensional archival digital photographic print with acrylic paint
51 5/8 x 43in. (131.13 x 109.22cm.)
Executed in 2006

Provenance

Marianne Goodman Gallery, New York.
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited

Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, exh. cat., John Baldessari, Noses & Ears, Etc., July-September 2006 (illustrated, p. 54).

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The artist has requested this work for inclusion in his upcoming retrospective, John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, opening at Tate Modern, London in October 2009 and travelling through January 2011 to Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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