Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1996)

Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Pat Steir: Paintings 1985 – 1995, February – April 1996

Doris von Drathen, ed., Pat Steir: Paintings, Milan, 2007, p. 193, illustrated in color

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling to the edges and sides of the canvas. There are accretions of paint and varnish scattered across the surface of the canvas, which is inherent to the artist's working method. Under ultraviolet light inspection, there are a few areas along the left edge towards the top of the canvas which fluoresce darkly under ultraviolet light. Unframed.
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“The coherence of Steir’s oeuvre seems to arise from an urge that reshapes its exterior into many forms but remains inwardly the same. This urge involves a primal assertion of selfhood, the mark that shows a presence working through deliberation. But before the mark can be made, the frame in which it will appear and exert its meaning must be defined. In Steir’s oeuvre, this definition comes from a prolonged confrontation with issues of history. And it becomes a reconciliation, in the sense of history as the self.” (Thomas McEvilley, Pat Steir, New York, 1995, p. 76)