Contemporary Curated
Contemporary Curated
Box #118
Auction Closed
March 1, 09:28 PM GMT
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Lucas Samaras
b. 1936
Box #118
wood box construction, rhinestones, beads, yarn, marbles, wire, nails, pins, plastic, fabric, paint, printed paper and photographic collage
open: 13¼ by 21½ by 11¼ in.(33.7 by 54.6 by 28.6 cm.)
closed: 7 by 12⅞ by 9¼ in.(17.8 by 32.7 by 23.5 cm.)
Executed in 1987.
The Pace Gallery, New York
Speyer Family Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1988)
Christie's, New York, 12 November 2021, lot 201(consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Mildred Glimcher, ed., Adventures in Art: 40 Years at Pace, New York 2001, p. 357, illustrated in color
Hannah Barton, ed., Lucas Samaras Catalogue Raisonné: Boxes, Cahiers d'Art Institute, 2017 - ongoing, no. 1987.06, illustrated in color (online)
New York, The Pace Gallery, Lucas Samaras: Boxes and Mirrored Cell, October - November 1988, no. 11, n.p., illustrated in color
New York and Chicago, Phyllis Kind Gallery, 'Human Concern/Personal Torment: The Grotesque in American Art' Revisited, October 1989 - January 1990, p. 7, illustrated in color
Catalogue note
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