Martin Wong (Chinese/American, 1946-1999) Lot of Two Works: Love Is Where It's At

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Martin Wong (Chinese/American, 1946-1999)

Lot of Two Works: Love Is Where It's At and Freak Freely Can You Dig It
Both unsigned.
Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm),framed.
Condition: Minor surface grime.

N.B. The present work is representative of Wong's sign language paintings where "fat stylized hands...crunched together like letters...pay homage to graffiti artists' tags but also suggest some rogue form of Persian script." (1)

Provenance: Estate of Jonas Aarons, New York.
(1) Roberta Smith, Martin Wong is Dead at 53; A Painter of Poetic Realism, New York Times, August 18, 1999.
Estimate $1,000-1,500

Minor white smudge (likely paint) to the u.r. quadrant of Love; chalk guides to Freak, both with surface dust that would benefit from a cleaning, no additional condition issues to report.

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