Modern & Contemporary Art 
22 February 2023
Modern & Contemporary Art 
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Robert McChesney 1913–2008

Hair Suite #14

1963
mixed media on canvas 68 h × 47 w in (173 × 119 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $2,268
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Signed, titled and dated to verso ‘Robert McChesney Hair Suite #14 1963’.
provenance: Metromedia, Inc. Art Collection, Secaucus, NJ | Nordness Gallery, Inc., New York | Private Collection

This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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Of the generation of Western artists, who shortly after the last War emerged as a powerful group of abstractionists, McChesney has seemed to me the steadiest and most deliberate, and in some ways the most sensitive and refined.

Allan Temko on Robert McChesney for Artforum

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