Contemporary Day Auction

Mark Tansey

The Seven Deadly Sins

Session begins in

May 16, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Bid

70,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Mark Tansey

b. 1949

The Seven Deadly Sins

inscribed (lower left of each); signed and dated 82 (lower right of "Time")

graphite on paper in 7 parts

each image: 4 ¾ by 3 ¾ in. (12 by 9.5 cm.)

overall: 11 ⅞ by 45 ¾ in. (31.2 by 117.5 cm.)

Executed in 1982.

Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York

Leslie and Ron Rosenzweig, New York

Curt Marcus Gallery, New York

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2011)

Christie's New York, 20 June 2019, lot 570 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Oberlin, Allen Memorial Art Museum; Mount Vernon, Mitchell Museum; Aspen Center for the Visual Arts; Wausau, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum and Newport Harbor Art Museum, Drawings: After Photography, December 1984 - December 1985, n.p., illustrated