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August 19, 2020
C2: Modern Origins II
Lot 196
  1. Rex Lau - The Day Before Yesterday
  2. Rex Lau - The Day Before Yesterday
  1. Rex Lau - The Day Before Yesterday
  2. Rex Lau - The Day Before Yesterday
Rex Lau

The Day Before Yesterday (1988)

Dimensions
26 x 24 inches

Estimate: $200 - $400

Price Realized: $195
Includes buyer's premium

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Rex Lau
American (b. 1947)
The Day Before Yesterday (1988)
Details
oil on panel 26 x 24 inches
Provenance
Private Collection
Condition
good condition, 2 inch scratch on the house, has two pink vertical marks in the center
Frame Information
frame dimensions: 28 1/2 x 26 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches
wood frame
Notes
Exhibition History:

Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. 'New Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,' February 9–26, 1984, no. 18.

Mexico City. Museo Rufino Tamayo. 'Nueva Pintura Narrativa: Coleccion del Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York,' November–December 1984, no. 21.

Phoenix Museum of Art. 'New Narrative Painting: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art,' March 14–April 27, 1986, unnum. brochure.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 'The 1980s: A New Generation, American Painters and Sculptors,' April 13–July 31, 1988, brochure no. 32.

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