Art Institute of Chicago

Sicily

Paul Thek · 1963

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist; sold to Bertram (1918-2000) and Deborah Beck (born 1938), Long Island, 1965 [correspondence with Pace Gallery/Paul Thek Estate, Aug. 8, 2025; copy in curatorial object file]; sold to Christopher Green (born 1967), Champaign, IL, Nov. 18, 2016 [invoice; copy in curatorial object file]; sold through Pace Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 21, 2026.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Rome, Galleria 88, Paul Thek, Nov. 26–Dec. 7, 1963, no cat.
Watermill, NY, Watermill Center, Thek Room, July 15, 2017–July 1, 2018, no cat.
Watermill, NY, Watermill Center, Paul Thek: Interior/Landscape, July 31–Nov. 13, 2021, no cat.
Rome, Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Paul Thek. Italian Hours, Oct. 28, 2022–Jan. 28, 2023, no cat. no.
New York Galerie Buchholz, Paul Thek 5 Paintings 1962–1963, Feb. 15–Mar. 30, 2024, cat info forthcoming.

Literature

Katy Diamond Hamer, ArtSeen. “Paul Thek: Interior / Landscape” Brooklyn Rail (September 2021), Online, (color ills.), https://brooklynrail.org/2021/09/artseen/Paul-Thek-Interior-Landscape/
Valérie Da Costa, Paul Thek in Italy: (1962-1976), (Dijon: Les presses du réel, 2022), dust jacket (color ill.), 29, fig. 2, 30, fig. 2 (color ill.).
Peter Benson Miller, Paul Thek. Italian Hours, exh. cat. (Milan: Humboldt Books; Rome: Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, 2023), 10-11 (color ill.), 12-13 (color ill.), 24-25 (color ill.), 28-29 (color ill.), 62, 74-76, 78, 84, 101-104, 107.
Andrew Durbin, The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026), 160-161.

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