Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection | Live Sale

Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection | Live Sale

Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection

George Segal

Man Leaving a Bus

Auction Closed

September 27, 03:01 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection

George Segal

1924 - 2000


Man Leaving a Bus

plaster, painted metal, glass, chrome and rubber

86 ½ by 46 by 36 in.

219.7 by 116.8 by 91.4 cm.

Executed in 1967.


This work will be included in the artist’s forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared by the George & Helen Segal Foundation, registered under CR#0025.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Harry N. Abrams, New York (acquired from the above in May 1967)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

William C. Seitz, Segal, New York 1972, p. 68, illustrated in color

Sandra Furlotti Reberschak, "I Grandi Colezionisti: A Katonah e a New York, le case e l'ufficio di Harry Abrams: I mille e uno quadri di un grande editore d'arte," Bolaffi Arte, n. 67, anno VIII, February - March 1977, p. 34, illustrated in color

Jan van der Marck, George Segal, New York 1979, no. 80, p. 143, illustrated in color

Phyllis Tuchman, Segal, Abbeville Press, Inc., New York 1983, no. 16, p. 24, illustrated in color

Sam Hunter and Don Hawthorne, eds., George Segal, New York 1984, fig. 183, no. 69, p. 181, illustrated in color

Ron Walker, "A short play: Valor revisited," The Christian Science Monitor, 20 August 1987, p. 30, illustrated

Sam Hunter, George Segal, New York 1989, no. 25, p. 47, illustrated in color

Steve Parks, "Greeting Fall Inside Out: Yes, You Can Navigate This Season's Transition — Artfully," Newsday, 22 October 1999, p. B19

Helen A. Harrison, "Rodin and His Descendants, of A Sort," The New York Times, 5 December 1999, p. 32

New York, Sidney Janis, George Segal, March - April 1967, no. 11, illustrated

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, George Segal: Twelve Human Situations, April - May 1968, no. 59, n.p., illustrated

New York, The Sidney Janis Gallery, 25th Anniversary Exhibition: From Pollock to Pop, Op and Sharp-Focus Realism, March - April 1974, no. 62, illustrated

Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; Baltimore Museum of Art, George Segal: Environments, February - August 1976, p. 7, illustrated and pp. 8-9

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; San Francisco Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, George Segal: Sculptures, October 1978 - July 1979, p. 13 and p. 27, illustrated in color

Akron Art Museum, The Contemporary Image: American Realism Since 1960, August - November 1981, pl. 15

Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Qu'est-ce que la sculpture moderne?, July - October 1986, no. 134, p. 118, illustrated in color (titled as Man Getting off a Bus)

University Art Museum, University of California Berkley; Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, Art from the '50s & '60s, April 1987 - December 1987, no. 70, pp. 72-73 and p. 74, illustrated in color

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Three Realist Sculptors: Segal, Hanson and De Andrea, September 1999 - January 2000, p. 2, illustrated and p. 6

Madrid, Círculo de Bellas Artes; Salamanca, DA2 Domus Atrium 2000; A Coruña, Kiosco Alfonso; New York, QCC Art Gallery, Queensborough Community College, An American Odyssey 1945/1980 [Debating Modernism], April 2004 - January 2005, n.p., illustrated in color (titled as Man Stepping Off Bus)

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