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Martin WongMartin Wong drawing 19761976
1976
$15,000
£11,373.78
€13,136.58
CA$21,045.92
A$23,444.68
CHF 12,366.70
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NOK 157,322.25
SEK 146,555.64
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Martin Wong, Jan Rowen, 1976:
Included in the Martin Wong Catalog Raisonne, this 1970s Wong drawing features the artist’s friend, Jan Rowen captured intimately. A poignant insight into Wong’s Eureka, California years (more below). Hand signed, dated (March 5, 1976) and inscribed across the upper. A rare early work emanating from Wong’s spiral-bound sketchpad.
Medium: Graphite on paper. 1976.
11 x 14 inches (dimensions including matting 16x20 inches).
Unique drawing.
Condition:
Fair to good overall vintage condition; toning & scattered spotting. Pinholes at all four corners. Light vertical crease at center, from upper to bottom edge.
Sheet is fully laid down to a foam core support. Reverse not accessible. Sheet is from an artists' spiral-bound sketchpad & retains serration along upper edge.
Hand-initialed, dated & inscribed across upper.
Provenance:
Private collection California, via Martin Wong. Doyle Auctions, New York.
This work appears in the Martin Wong Catalog Raisonne.
Accompanied by a COA from Lot 180 Gallery New York.
Literature/References:
Martin Wong & Eureka, CA: see, Artforum ‘Humboldt Fog’ (Adler):
“Many people associate Wong with his time in New York City, where he romanticized a similar desolation in the crumbling brick tenements of the Lower East Side. But from 1973 until 1978, he savored a more provincial air of neglect in the Old Town commercial district of Eureka. It epitomized for him a national condition of erosion—a condition to which paintings like his self-portrait were ultimately consigned.
Wong was part of a wave of artists and hippies who moved northward from the San Francisco Bay Area after California’s countercultural explosion... Some were galvanized by the back-to-the-land movement and carved out communes in the countryside. Others settled near the college town of Arcata, home of Wong’s alma mater, Humboldt State College. But Wong made the less popular decision to live in Eureka among a motley cast of artists, fishermen, potters, and loggers.
The city became what John Rotter, Wong’s friend and collaborator, called a ‘sea of disenfranchised people.’
Wong’s Eureka years inaugurated a form of social semirealism that would continue for much of his career. But his engagement with the city ran deeper… His most definitive ode to Eureka is found in a self-published book of drawings from 1976, simply titled Eureka, which catalogues the places where residents gathered in previous eras.”
More on Martin Wong:
Martin Wong’s haunting paintings combine the leftist politics of social realism with a cosmic, transcendent symbology; brick walls and constellations are frequent motifs. A fixture of New York’s East Village art scene in the 1980s, the largely self-taught artist often focused on the city’s blighted downtown landscape. He imbued row houses and ruins with a sense of magic as he considered the intersections of race, sexuality, and history in his urban environment. Wong exhibited extensively in New York before his death in 1999, and his work has been included in exhibitions at the New Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Modern Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, and The Bass, among other institutions. Wong’s paintings have sold for six-figure prices on the secondary market.
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- Creator:Martin Wong (1946 - 1999, American)
- Creation Year:1976
- Dimensions:Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 14 in (35.56 cm)
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- Gallery Location:NEW YORK, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU354315563742
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