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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Ellsworth Kelly

Curve XXVIII

Auction Closed

November 21, 10:28 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Ellsworth Kelly

1923 - 2015


Curve XXVII 

red oak 

144 by 15 ⅔ by 1 ⅝ in.

365.8 by 39.8 by 4.1 cm.

Executed in 1982.

Please note this lot will be available for collection from Dun-Rite following the auction and the successful purchaser will be responsible for collection, shipping, and release fees. Please contact Connolly.Bell@sothebys.com with any questions.

Blum Helman Gallery, New York 

Lord Peter Palumbo, London (acquired from the above in 1985) 

Richard Gray Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in October 1998 by the present owner 

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Saint Louis Art Museum, Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture, December 1982 - May 1983, no. 76, p. 125, illustrated in color and pp. 112, 189 

New York, Blum Helman Gallery, Ellsworth Kelly: Works in Wood, May - June 1984, no. 3, n.p., illustrated in color 

London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, In Tandem: The Painter-Sculptor in the Twentieth Century, March - May 1986, p. 80 and n.p., illustrated in color

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Ellsworth Kelly Wood Sculptures, September 2011 – March 2012, no. 14, p. 20, 68 and n.p., illustrated in color

Paula Dietz, "The House Collector: Lord Palumbo, a man of many places," Harper's Bazaar, October 1993, p. 266, illustrated in color

Jennifer Brushaber, "Focus on Ellsworth Kelly," NY SoHo, February 1997, Iss. 7, p. 10 

Madeleine Grynsztejn and Julian Myers, Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco, San Francisco, 2002, fig. 8, p. 13, illustrated in color

Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York, 2016, pp. 19, 218, illustrated in color 

Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, p. 157, illustrated in color 

Camille Freestone, "This Stunning Home Is The Perfect Synthesis Of Curation & Design", Coveteur, 2 February 2022, illustrated in color (online)