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Contemporary Los Angeles | May 29 - June Made in California: in California: Made Made in California: Contemporary in California: Made Art | Los Angeles April 29, 2020 Bonhams 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90046 26102 Made in California: +1 323 850 7500 bonhams.com Contemporary Art AUCTIONEERS SINCE 1793 Los Angeles | May 29 - June 11, 2020 Index Lot A K ADAMS, MARK 104 KROLL, ALEXANDER 26 ALTOON, JOHN 7, 8 KUNTZ, ROGER 64 ANDERSON, JEREMY 51 KÜRTEN, STEFAN 93 ANGUS, PATRICK 80 APPEL, KEVIN 77 L ARNESON, ROBERT 46, 90, 103 LUNDEBERG, HELEN 33 ARNOLDI, CHARLES 9 M B MCLAUGHLIN, JOHN 31 BARON, HANNELORE 50 MCMILLEN, MICHAEL C. 49, 99 BELL, LARRY 3, 4 BENGSTON, BILLY AL 13, 14 MISRACH, RICHARD 106 BENJAMIN, KARL STANLEY 30 MOSES, ED 10 BERK, HENRIETTA 82 MULLICAN, LEE 27 BERLANT, TONY 70 BEST, DAVID 53 N BISCHOFF, ELMER NELSON 57 NELSON, R. KENTON 67 BROWN, CHRISTOPHER 110, 111 NERI, MANUEL 36, 41 BROWN, WILLIAM THEOPHILUS 109 BURKHARDT, HANS 42 O BUTTERFIELD, DEBORAH 54 OLIVEIRA, NATHAN 39, 40, 43, 53, 72 ORR, ERIC 1, 2 C CAIN, SARAH 74 P CALAME, INGRID 78 PARASNIS, SIDDHARTH 83 CARNWATH, SQUEAK 75 PETERSEN, ROLAND 62, 63 CARO, SIR ANTHONY 55 PILATO, NICHOLAS 25 COHEN, LARRY 81 COLESCOTT, ROBERT 91 PITTMAN, LARI 23 CONNER, BRUCE 16 POPE.L, WILLIAM 105 D R DE STAEBLER, STEPHEN 56 RATH, ALAN 76 DURANT, SAM 19 REGISTER, JOHN 61 REID, LAURIE 73 F RUBY, STERLING 18 FORD, GORDON ONSLOW 28 RUSCHA, ED 5 FRANCIS, SAM 34, 35 RUSCONI, PAUL 22 FREY, VIOLA 37, 38 S G SAAR, BETYE 102 GARCIA, CAMILLE ROSE 84 SIMPSON, DAVID WILLIAM 107 GILHOOLY, DAVID JAMES 44, 45, 68, 69, STERNBACH, JONI 79 94, 95, 96, 97 STIEGELMEYER, NORMAN 24 GIPE, LAWRENCE 85 GOODE, JOE 6, 11, 12 V GRAHAM, ROBERT 65, 66 VANDENBERGE, PETER 112 H HAMMERSLEY, FREDERICK 29 W HEIZER, MICHAEL 15 WADDELL, THEODORE 71 HOPPER, DENNIS 17 WELLING, JAMES 21 HOUSEAGO, THOMAS 20 WILEY, WILLIAM T. 47, 48, 86, 87, 88, 89, 92, 108 I WOELFFER, EMERSON 32 IRELAND, DAVID 98, 100, 101 WONNER, PAUL 58, 59, 60 Made in California: Contemporary Art Los Angeles | Friday May 29 - Thursday June 11, 2020 at 10am BONHAMS SALE NUMBER INQUIRIES PROPERTY COLLECTION 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard 26102 Sonja Moro NOTICE Los Angeles, California 90046 Lots 1 - 112 +1 (415) 694 9002 Please note the property will be bonhams.com [email protected] available for collection at our Los CATALOG Angeles gallery at the time of the Bonded pursuant to California $35 Laura Bjorstad auction. Local, out-of-state and Civil Code Sec. 1812.600; +1 (323) 485 1706 international buyer property will Bond No. 57BSBGL0808 [email protected] remain available for collection in our BIDS Los Angeles gallery after the auction PREVIEW +1 (323) 850 7500 Sharon Squires in 5 business days. 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International Post-War & Contemporary Specialists Los Angeles San Francisco Sharon Squires Senior Director Sonja Moro Specialist, Head of Sale Laura Bjorstad Specialist Amelia Manderscheid Vice President New York Muys Snijders Head of America Jacqueline Towers-Perkins Senior Specialist Lisa De Simone Senior Specialist Andrew Huber Specialist Chicago Hong Kong London Amy Thompson Director, International Business Development Yao Yao Director for Private Clients, China Dorothy Lin Specialist Ralph Taylor Global Head Tokyo Giacomo Balsamo International Director Clémence Tasiaux Head of Department Irene Sieberger Specialist Ryo Wakabayashi Consultant Brussels Milan Paris Christine de Schaetzen Specialist Luca Curradi Specialist Emilie Millon Junior Specialist 2 | BONHAMS United States Representatives Sheryl Acheson Portland/Oregon/Idaho Natalie Waechter Chicago/Midwest Shawn Marsh Chicago/Midwest Brooke Sivo Palm Springs/San Diego Amy Corcoran Boston/New England Caitlyn Pickens Pennsylvania, Delaware and Southern New Jersey Heather O’Mahony Seattle/Washington/Alaska April Matteini Miami/Florida Alexis Cronin Butler Miami/Florida Gertraud Hechl Virgina/Washington DC Lindsay Davis Houston/Texas/Louisiana Mary Holm Houston/Texas/Oklahoma Terri Hardy Scottsdale/Arizona/New Mexico Kristin Kearney Toronto Perry Tung Toronto POST-WAR & CONTEMPORARY ART | 3 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MID-WESTERN COLLECTION 1 ERIC ORR (1939-1998) Untitled, circa 1987 oil on canvas with gold leafed lead on panel 15 1/4 x 13 in. 38.7 x 33 cm. $2,000 - 4,000 Provenance Scott Hanson Gallery, New York Acquired directly from the above by the present owner 6 | BONHAMS PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MID-WESTERN COLLECTION 2 ERIC ORR (1939-1998) Myriad Oceans of Time, 1987 oil and blood on canvas with gold leafed lead on panel 15 1/4 x 13 in. 38.7 x 33 cm. $2,000 - 4,000 Provenance Scott Hanson Gallery, New York Acquired directly from the above by the present owner MADE IN CALIFORNIA: ConTEmpoRARY ART | 7 PRIVATE COLLECTION, LOS ANGELES 3 LARRY BELL (B. 1939) SF 5/2/12 A, 2012 signed, inscribed and dated ‘L Bell ‘12 5/2/12 A’ (lower left); inscribed and dated again ‘5/2/12 A’ (on the reverse) aluminum, silicon monoxide and paper on canvas 30 x 22 in. 76.2 x 55.8 cm. $6,000 - 8,000 Provenance Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica Acquired directly from the above by the present owner 8 | BONHAMS PRIVATE COLLECTION, LOS ANGELES 4 LARRY BELL (B. 1939) SSSS (Stain, Scratch, Smear, Specimens), 2006 signed and dated ‘L BELL ‘06’ (lower right side edge) inconel coated glass and wood 21 x 21 x 5 in. 53.3 x 53.3 x 12.7 cm. $10,000 - 15,000 Provenance Sale: Venice Family Clinic Benefit Auction, Los Angeles Acquired directly from the above sale by the present owner MADE IN CALIFORNIA: ConTEmpoRARY ART | 9 5 ED RUSCHA (B. 1937) ARTS, 1997 signed and dated ‘Ed Ruscha 1997’ (lower right); inscribed ‘Cancellation Proof’ and embossed with printer’s chop (lower left) unique hand-pulled lithograph 11 1/4 x 15 1/8 in. 28.6 x 38.5 cm. $8,000 - 12,000 Provenance Hamilton Press, Venice Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1997 In 1993 Ed Ruscha and master printer Ed Hamilton began working on a series of hand-pulled lithographs entitled Archi-Props. The images that resulted from this partnership hold a very special place in the artist’s oeuvre – referencing Ruscha’s interest in vernacular architectural and cultural documentation (e.g. Every Building on the Sunset Strip, 1966 and Then & Now: Hollywood Boulevard 1973-2004, 2004) with a paired down image of an anonymous storefront building. The series Archi-Props was made in an edition of 20 and published by Patrick Painter, Santa Monica. The image that is equivalent to the present lot in the edition reads PARTS. In keeping with Ruscha’s career-long relationship with wordplay, the artist removed the P in PARTS and created this image, which is emblematic of so many aspects of Ruscha’s work. 10 | BONHAMS MADE IN CALIFORNIA: ConTEmpoRARY ART | 11 6 JOE GOODE (B. 1937) Clouds, 1973 inscribed ‘JG006 30 X 60 Clouds oil on canvas’ (on stretcher bar) oil on canvas 30 x 60 in.
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