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MARK TANSEY (B. 1949)
Bridge Over the Cartesian Gap
signed, dated and titled 'Tansey 1990 'Bridge over the Cartesian Gap' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
87 x 108 in. (221 x 274.3 cm.)
Painted in 1990
Provenance
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York.
Diane Keaton, Los Angeles.
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York.
Private collection, United States.
Anon. sale, Christie's, New York, 12 November 2013, lot 55.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
Literature
J. Miller, "Mark Tansey: Curt Marcus Gallery" in Artforum, summer 1990 (illustrated, p. 166).
A. C. Danto and C. Sweet, Mark Tansey Visions and Revisions, New York, 1992, pp. 110-111, 132 and 143 (illustrated in color).
M. Friedman, ed., Visions of America: Landscape as Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century, New York, 1994, pp. 168-169 and 173 (illustrated in color, fig. 1).
P. Loubier, "Les Allégories de Mark Tansey au crepuscule du modernisme" in Parachute, 1998, vol. 91, p. 50 (illustrated in color).
M.C. Taylor, The Picture in Question: Mark Tansey and the Ends of Representation, Chicago, 1999, pp. 44-45, 47-49, 79 and 95.
Exhibited
New York, Curt Marcus Gallery, Mark Tansey March 1990.
Kunsthalle Basel, Mark Tansey April-May 1990 (illustrated in color).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Boston, Museum of Fine Art and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Mark Tansey June 1993-November 1994, pp. 52-53 and 114, no. 18 (illustrated in color).
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