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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Louise Nevelson

Large Cryptic I

Auction Closed

November 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Louise Nevelson

1899 - 1988


Large Cryptic I

wood painted black

7 by 20 by 10¾ in.

17.8 by 50.8 by 27.3 cm.

Executed in 1970. 

Pace Gallery, New York
Steve Shalom, New York (acquired from the above)
Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in January 1972 by the present owner 
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; San Francisco Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art; Kansas City, The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nevelson: Wood Sculptures, November 1973 - March 1975, no. 7, p. 17, illustrated
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Wood Work, October 1997 - October 1998
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Five Decades of Passion, Part One: The Eye of the Collector, 1968-1988, January - April 2009
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art; Ashville Art Museum; Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum; Grand Rapids Art Museum and San Jose Museum of Art, Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, February 2011 - September 2014, pl. 2, p. 21, illustrated in color (in installation view)