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MARTIN WONG (1946-1999)
Little Got Rained On
acrylic on canvas, in artist's found frame
framed: 2012 x 26 in. (52.1 x 66 cm.)
canvas: 16 x 21 in. (40.6 x 53.3 cm.)
Painted in 1983.
Provenance
Exit Art, New York
Web Gallery NYC, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
M. Wong, M. Tucker and A. Scholder, eds., Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong, New York 1998, p. 40 (illustrated).
A. Bessa, ed., Martin Wong: Human Instamatic, London 2015, p. 51 (illustrated).
A. Beadnell, V. Kam, M. Kwon, M. Johnson and G. Ware, eds., Martin Wong Catalogue Raisonné, Stanford, 2022-ongoing (illustrated online).
Exhibited
New York, EXIT Art, Martin Wong, November-December 1988.
Bronx, Bronx Museum of the Arts; Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts; Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Martin Wong: Human Instamatic, November 2015-December 2017, pp. 51 and 153 (illustrated).
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