Contemporary Day Auction

Property from an Important Private Collection, San Francisco

Ruth Asawa

Stripes (S.645, Hanging Three-Lobed, Single-Layered Continuous Form (Stripes))

Auction Closed

November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000,000 - 1,500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important Private Collection, San Francisco

Ruth Asawa

1926 - 2013

Stripes (S.645, Hanging Three-Lobed ,Single-Layered Continuous Form (Stripes))

copper and orange enameled copper wire

38½ by 15 by 15 in.

97.8 by 38.1 by 38.1 cm.

Executed in 1958.

The present work is accompanied by the artist's copper tag, which is is stamped with the artist's insignia and numbered S.645/50.

Please refer to Sothebys.com for updated cataloguing for this work.

Beth Haley Conn, San Francisco (acquired directly from the artist circa 1960)
Acquired by descent from the above in 2007 by the present owner

New York, Peridot Gallery, Ruth Asawa, 1958
Sausalito, David Cole Gallery, Ruth Asawa, 1959
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Ruth Asawa: Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, 1960

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