- Titles Force of Circumstance (Proper)@Force of Circumstance (for Simone de Beauvoir) (Former title)
- Artist Elizabeth Murray, American, 1940 - 2007
- Medium oil on canvas
- Dimensions 124 x 152 x 13 in. (315 x 386.1 x 33 cm)
- Credit Line Museum purchase with funds provided by the Collectors Circle for Contemporary Art; partial gift of PaceWildenstein in memory of the artist, 2008.103a-b, image © 2018 The Murray-Holman Family Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- Signature none
- Inscription Label on verso, left stretcher bar, top: PACEWILDENSTEIN / 23 EAST 57TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10022 / TELEPHONE 212 241 3292 [printed] / #44480 [typed] Elizabeth Murray / Force of Circumstance 1986 / Oil on canvas / 10'4" x 12'8" (315 cm x 386.1 cm) [typed] Hand-lettered in pencil on verso, left stretcher bar, center: WN: CADRED PIGMENTS: MAI MERI: VERONESE GREEN / STIL DE GRAIN BROWN / VAN DYKE BROWN / MARS RED / HOLBEIN COLBALT (sic)(?) BLUE PALE / YELLOW OCHRE EXTRA / DAVEYS GREY + MONOCHROME TINT / COOL #2 Printed Label on verso, right stretcher bar, top: NEWPORT HARBOR ART MUSEUM / 850 SAN CLEMENTE DRIVE NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660 / EXHIBITION DEVIL ON THE STAIRS: LOOKING BACK AT THE 80s / April 17 to June 21, 1992 / ARTIST Elizabeth Murray, FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE / (for Simone de Beauvior) / LENDER Saatchi Collection, London [details typed onto label] Handwritten in marker on verso, right stretcher bar, center: PW# 44480
- Provenance Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York; Saatchi Collection, London, England; PaceWildenstein, New York, NY; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama