Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Private Collection, Santa Monica
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Hal Foster, 'The American Friend', Robert Longo: Charcoal, Ostfildern 2012, p. 25, illustrated in colour and pp. 134-35, illustrated in colour

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate, although the overall tonality is a bit warmer in the original. Condition: Unexamined out of its frame, this work is in very good condition.
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"Unlike the monster waves, these nuclear blasts are a man-made sublime, not a natural one, or rather they show a nature unlocked, the atom opened up, like a cosmic Pandora’s Box or an ultimate hurt locker."
Hal Foster
Robert Longo Charcoal, Germany 2012, p. 25