Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation
Depression Breadline
Auction Closed
November 21, 10:28 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation
George Segal
1934 - 2021
Depression Breadline
bronze with dark patina, in 7 parts
overall: 106 by 150 by 38 in.
269.2 by 381 by 96.5 cm.
Conceived in 1991 and cast in 2008, this work is number 4 from an edition of 7 of which 5 have been realized.
Carroll Janis, New York
Acquired from the above in 2008 by the present owner
Martin Friedman, "George Segal," Artforum, vol. 47, no. 5, January 2009, pp. 77-78, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)
Bentonville, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (permanent collection) (original plaster cast exhibited)
Washington, D.C., Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Depression Breadline Public Installation, 1999 - present (another example exhibited)
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008 - present (permanent collection) (another example exhibited)
Hamilton, Grounds for Sculpture, 2014 - present (permanent collection) (another example exhibited)
Catalogue note
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