Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

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Jack Whitten

Top Hat Triptych

Session begins in

May 16, 02:00 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Bid

500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jack Whitten

1939 - 2018


Top Hat Triptych

signed, titled, dated 1983 and variously numbered I-III (on the reverse of each)

oil and acrylic on 3 canvases

each: 23 by 23 in. (58.4 by 58.4 cm.)

Executed in 1983.

Onyx Gallery, New York

Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1985)

Hauser & Wirth, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Elizabeth C. Baker, ed., Art in America, vol. 72, October 1984, p. 52, illustrated in color

Will Grant, "Opposing forces in Jack Whitten's art," ARTSPEAK, October 1984, n.p., illustrated

New York, Onyx Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition: Jack Whitten’s New Works, October 1984, n.p., illustrated in color