04-13-201104-14-2011
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
April 13, 2011 02:00 PMCalender
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Richard E. Baringer (American, 1921-1980) Lot of Two Works: Big Yellow Area

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$1,067$900
Auction: Discovery - 2543MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: April 13, 2011 2:00PM

Description:

Richard E. Baringer (American, 1921-1980)

Lot of Two Works: Big Yellow Area and UntitledYellow signed, dated, and titled "Baringer '62/ BIG YELLOW AREA" in pencil on the reverse, identified on a label from Bertha Schafer Gallery, New York, on the stretcher.
Acrylic on canvas, sizes 66 x 66 in., unframed.
Condition: Surface grime.

N.B. Illinois-born Baringer studied as an undergraduate with Lazlo Moholy-Nagy at the Institute of Design, Chicago, and later with Walter Gropius at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The year of the present work, he was an assistant professor of architecture at Columbia University, as well as a private practice residential architect in New York City.
Estimate $700-900

Keywords

Richard E. Baringer, Bertha Schafer Gallery, Harvard University Graduate School, Institute of Design, Chicago, Walter Gropius, New York City, Columbia University, assistant professor of architecture, private practice residential architect, professor of architecture