Lot Description

Peter Howson (b. 1958)
Sisters of Mercy
oil on canvas
72 x 96 in. (182.9 x 243.8 cm.)
Painted in 1989.

Provenance

Flowers East, London

Pre-Lot Text

Property from the Collection of Eugene Stevens

Literature

D. Kuspit, The Inhuman Condition According to Peter Howson, London, 1989, p. 19 (illustrated).
City Limits Magazine, New York, October 12-19, 1989.
Time Out Magazine, London, November 11-18, 1989.
P. Howson, "A Flawed Genius," Modern Painters, vol. 3 number 1, Spring 1990, p. 31 (illustrated).
R. Heller, Peter Howson, Edinburgh, 1993, p. 33 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, Peter Howson a Retrospective, July-September 1993.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art, 1998.