I will not make any more boring art
57.2 cms x 76.2 cms (22.5 ins x 30 ins)
Signed, dated 1971 and numbered "47/50" along the right edge
printed in 1971
Lot offered for sale by Cowley Abbott, Toronto at the auction event "Auction to Benefit NSCAD (Online Auction)" held on Tue, Nov 7, 2023.
Lot 44404
Lot 44404
Estimate: CAD $30,000 - $40,000
Realised: CAD $43,200
Realised: CAD $43,200
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
NSCAD Lithography Workshop, NSCAD University, Halifax
Literature:
Garry Neill Kennedy, "The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978", Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax/The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England, 2012, page 100 ; illustrated page 101
Notes:
John Baldessari started as a semiabstract painter in the 1950s but grew so disenchanted with his own handiwork - as well as the very notion of handiwork - that in 1970 he decided to take his paintings to a San Diego funeral home and cremate them. He was ready to embrace a wide range of mediums: videos, photography, prints, sculpture, text-based art, installations and, yes, paintings, but most of all hybrid forms of these, like text painting.
NSCAD Lithography Workshop, NSCAD University, Halifax
Literature:
Garry Neill Kennedy, "The Last Art College: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1968-1978", Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax/The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England, 2012, page 100 ; illustrated page 101
Notes:
John Baldessari started as a semiabstract painter in the 1950s but grew so disenchanted with his own handiwork - as well as the very notion of handiwork - that in 1970 he decided to take his paintings to a San Diego funeral home and cremate them. He was ready to embrace a wide range of mediums: videos, photography, prints, sculpture, text-based art, installations and, yes, paintings, but most of all hybrid forms of these, like text painting.
Most realised prices include the Buyer's Premium of 18-25%, but not the HST/GST Tax.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Cowley Abbott auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Cowley Abbott auction house for permission to use.