Jun 08, 2023 - Sale 2640

Sale 2640 - Lot 195

Price Realized: $ 1,875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
KAY ROSEN
PGBS.

Metallic and enamel paint on canvas, 1988. 510x510 mm; 20x20 inches. Signed, dated and inscribed in ink, on the stretcher verso.

Provenance: Acquired from Feature Inc., New York, by Norman Dolph, New York; thence by descent to the current owner.

PGBS is one of the series of 1987-88 paintings in which the artist explored visual and audial aspects of language, in this case silent initial letters. The last word doubles as the title, the initials of George Bernard Shaw, with a silent P.