Richard Estes, Qualicraft Shoes

Richard Estes
Qualicraft Shoes

1974
Silkscreen on Fabriano Cottone paper laminated to Schoeller ragboard with an aluminum inlay
33.5 h × 47 w in (85 × 119 cm)

Signed and numbered to lower center 'Richard Estes 84/100'. This work is number 84 from the edition of 100 and 15 lettered artist's proof printed by Domberger KG, Stuttgart and published by Parasol Press, New York.

Provenance: Allan Stone Collection, New York

Exhibited: The 1970s: New American Painting, June 15, 1979 - February 10, 1981, The New Museum, New York (another example) | Richard Estes, July - October 1990, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, The Museum of Art, Kintetsu, Osaka, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (organized by Brain Trust Inc., Tokyo) (another example) | Richard Estes: The Complete Prints, 1992 - 1995, Stonybrook, New York, Canton Art Institute, Ohio, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont, Louisiana Arts & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, Huntsville Museum of Art, Alabama, Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, additional venues (another example) | Painterly to Precise: Richard Estes, February 14 - June 15, 2015, The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire (another example) | Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes, November 24 - December 16, 2016. Sims Reed Gallery, London

Literature: Richard Estes, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990, illus. p. 105, cat. no. 73 | Richard Estes: Urban Landscapes, Sims Reed Gallery, London, 2016, illus. p. 9 | Arthur, John, Richard Estes: Paintings & Prints (A Chameleon Book), Pomegranate Artbooks, San Francisco, 1993. illus. p. 115
Condition Report: Good condition and richly inked. Few handling marks throughout and sheet is lifting from backing at upper right corner. Very minor abrasions to pigment along extreme lower edge of sheet. Museum board is toned with additional staining at upper right edge. 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.