Lot 542: MATTHEW RITCHIE

PROPERTY OF OAK BROOK BANK

B. 1964
THREE YEARS

62 1/4 by 44 in. 158.1 by 111.8 cm.

oil and marker on canvas

Executed in 1999.

PROVENANCE

Lehmann Maupin, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1999

NOTE

"The fundamental description of how the universe works has changed three or four times in the past 15 years alone, which just shows you how open those questions are. It's a game. And that's really what my work is about, creating a model of how I'm thinking at the moment." (Matthew Ritchie)

comp:
Joan Miro
Constellation, 1940 -- 41
Oil on canvas
© 2006 Successio Miro / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris