Jun 08, 2010 - Sale 2216

Sale 2216 - Lot 206

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JOHN BALDESSARI
Tristram Shandy.

Color lithograph on TH Saunders Waterford Hoy Press paper, 1988. 460x540 mm; 18x21 1/4 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 16/50 in pencil, lower margin. Published by the Arion Press, San Francisco. From the same-titled suite. A very good impression.

Baldessari used stills from old B-movies and collage to create these lithographs illustrating Laurence Sterne's 1760 novel. The artist's experimental illustrations match Sterne's disregard for plot and punctuation. See also lots 207-209.