Provenance:
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
Acquired directly from the Artist by artist Jimmy Wright via trade, 1990
Corbett Vs. Dempsey, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2007

Lot Note:
In a 1990 letter to artist and friend Jimmy Wright, discussing a potential trade of art work and sharing news of genealogical evidence for shared linage with Elvis Presley, Roger Brown identifies He Has started Out to That Which Has Become A Circle, 1986 as being part of a group of “perverse” paintings he had available “precisely because they are perverse and I knew when I painted them they were too much for most people.” Brown goes on to frankly explain the quintessentially surreal subconscious conception of the work he ultimately traded to Wright, “’He has started out to that which he will become’(or something like that) was done from a weird dream I had.”