Lot 169
  • 169

Ken Price

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Ken Price
  • Orboclastic
  • acrylic on fired clay
  • 14 by 14 by 14 in. 35.6 by 35.6 by 35.6 cm.
  • Executed in 2006.

Provenance

L.A. Louver, Los Angeles
Private Collection

Condition

This work is in excellent and sound condition overall. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. There are no visible condition issues with this work.
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Catalogue Note

"These objects, for all their elegance and chromatic élan, are not vessels at all, or clay at all, or anything in particular beyond things that exist, in Price's words, 'on the line between bewitching and ludicrous'—objects available to anyone willing to tiptoe along the scumbled cliff of the sublime, above the abyss of the ridiculous."

Dave Hickey, "The Price of Everything" in Exh. Cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, 2012-2013, p. 157