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Artist or Maker: Robert Smithson (1938-1973)

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Description: Robert Smithson (1938-1973)
Man of Sorrow (The Forsaken)
left: signed, titled, numbered and dated 'R. SMITHSON "MAN OF SORROW" (THE FORSAKEN) No. 1 1961' (on the reverse)
right: signed, titled, numbered and dated 'R. SMITHSON "MAN OF SORROW" (THE FORSAKEN) No. 2 1961' (on the reverse)
diptych--oil on canvas
each: 45 x 25½ in. (115 x 65 cm.)
Painted in 1961. (2)

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Provenance: Acquired from the artist
Estate of George Lester, Connecticut

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Exhibited: Oslo, The National Museum of Contemporary Art; Stockholm, Modern Musuem and Ishoj, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Robert Smithson Retrospective: Works 1955-1973 , February 1999-January 2000.

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Notes: Robert Smithson: From the Archives of the Galleria George Lester, Rome