Lot 317: Robert Irwin (b. 1928)

Robert Irwin (b. 1928)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Irwin 57-58' (lower center); signed and dated again 'Robert Irwin 57-58' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
46¼ x 51 in. (117.4 x 129.5 cm.)
Painted in 1957-1958.

Paris, Centre National de la Cinématographie and Melourne, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Dennis Hopper and the New Hollywood, October 2008-April 2010, p. 156 (illustrated).

Acquired directly from the artist

The Dennis Hopper Collection

[The Ferus Gallery] was an incredibly nurturing situation and some quite spectacular things came out of it. Some people were nurtured by it in kind of a secondary way--Dennis Hopper and Frank Gehry, for instance, were very much a part of the dialogue we were having" (B. Irwin as quoted in K. McKenna, The Ferus Gallery, A Place to Begin, Göttingen, 2009, p. 236).