Sale 17650
New York
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14 November 2019
Price realised
USD 72,500
Estimate
William Baziotes (1912-1963) Figure in Orange signed 'Baziotes' (lower right); signed again, titled and dated 'FIGURE IN ORANGE WM. BAZIOTES 1947' (on the reverse) oil on canvas 24 x 30 1/8 in. (61 x 76.5 cm.) Painted in 1947.
Provenance
Everett Ellin Gallery, Los Angeles Marcia and Frederick Weisman, Los Angeles, 1960 By descent from the above to the late owner
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Literature
P. Shea, ed., Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman Collection, New York, 2003, pp. 50-51, no. 36 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, July-August 1965.
Pre-Lot Text
The Collection of Richard L. Weisman
Post Lot Text
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné being prepared by Michael Preble.
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