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ROBERT COLESCOTT (1925 - 2009) Wishing.
Acrylic on cotton canvas, 1985. 305x356 mm; 12x14 inches. Signed and dated in acrylic, upper right recto. Inscribed "Paintings I promised never to paint!" in pencil on the stretcher bars, verso.
Provenance: Semaphore Gallery, New York; Moss Gallery, New York, with the label on the frame back; private collection.
Exhibited: The Member's Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1986-87, with the label on the frame back.
Wishing is from Robert Colescott's 1985 series of small format Paintings I Promised Never to Make,which also includes Hands in Chains, Hands Testing Rope, and Money Changing Hands.
