Richard Estes, 4 1/2 % Interest

Richard Estes
4 1/2 % Interest (Urban Landscapes No. 2)

1979
screenprint in colors on Fabriano Cottone
27.5 h × 19.625 w in (70 × 50 cm)

This work is apart from the edition of 100 printed by Domberger KG, Stuttgart and published by Parasol Press, Ltd., New York.

Provenance: Allan Stone Collection, New York

Exhibited: Richard Estes: The Urban Landscapes, January 25 - April 1, 1979, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (organized by The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) (another example) | Richard Estes, July-October, 1990, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, The Museum of Art: Kintetsu, Osaka, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, (traveling exhibition organized by Brian Trust Inc.) (another example) | Richard Estes: The Complete Prints and the Japan Paintings, April 20 - June 6, 1991, Sert Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (another example) | Richard Estes: Originals and the Complete Prints, January 23 - March 2, 1991, Galerie Domberger, Filerstaddt, Germany (another example) | Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes, May 14-July 21, 1991, Portland Museum of Art, Maine (another example) | Richard Estes: The Complete Prints, 1992 - 1995, Stony Brook, New York, Canton Art Institute, Ohio, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont, Louisiana Arts & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, additional venues (traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts) (another example) | Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes, November 24 - December 16, 2016, Sims Reed Gallery, London (another example)

Literature: Richard Estes: The Complete Paintings 1966-1985, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, 1986, illus. p. 77, cat. no. 83 | Richard Estes, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990, illus. p. 107, cat. no. 77 | Richard Estes: Paintings & Prints (A Chameleon Book), Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco, 1993, p. 116
Condition Report: Sheet is in good overall condition and richly inked. Blindstamp to lower left. One small spot of surface accretion at lower right in margin. Soft crease to left margin as well as creasing to upper right corner. Unframed.Condition reports are rendered as specialist opinion by the staff of the Auction House and/or independent consultants and not as statements of fact. We do not guarantee the content of written or verbal condition reports. The absence of a condition report does not imply that there are no condition issues with the lot. Please call us at (609) 397-9374 or e-mail info@ragoarts.com with any questions about this lot at least 24 hours prior to auction.