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The Serenade for the Doll after Claude Debussy, Gift Wrapped Doll #14
Photo: Jueqian Fang

The Serenade for the Doll after Claude Debussy, Gift Wrapped Doll #14

Date1992
Maker James Rosenquist American, 1933 - 2017
Object number2014.25.67
Provenance[Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York]; [Richard L. Feigen & Co., New York, New York]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, Jan. 12, 1994
Photo CreditPhoto: Jueqian Fang
Exhibition HistoryNew York, New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, James Rosenquist, Mar. 20 - Apr. 17, 1993. Chicago, Illinois, Feigen Incorporated, James Rosenquist: Gift Wrapped Dolls or Serenade for the Doll after Claude Debussy, Sept. 10 - Oct. 9, 1993 Tacoma, Washington, Tacoma Art Museum, Sparkle then Fade, May 17 - Sept. 3, 2007. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, City of Tomorrow: Jinny Wright and the Art That Shaped a New Seattle, Oct. 23, 2020 - Jan. 18, 2021.Published ReferencesJames Rosenquist: The Serenade for the Doll after Claude Debussy or Gift Wrapped Dolls and Masquerade of the Military Industrial Complex Looking Down on the Insect World. With an interview of James Rosenquist by David Whitney. New York: Leo Castelli Gallery, 1993, illus. p. 13, and on cover. Russell, John. “Gallery View: A Painter Finds That Dolls Can Be Dynamite” in The New York Times, 11 April 1993. Russell, John. “James Rosenquist: Gift Wrapped Dolls or Serenade for the Doll after Claude Debussy.” Chicago: Richard L. Feigan & Company, Incorporated, 1993, illus. p.11. Appelo, Tim. “Death-obsessed Robleto Mixes, Matches and Turns Art on Its Interactive Head” in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 5 June 2008. Rosenquist, James, with David Dalton. “Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art.” New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009, Reference to the Gift Wrapped Doll series of paintings pp. 301–302.
Credit LineGift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions60 x 60 in. (152.4 x 152.4 cm)
MediumOil on canvas
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