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Property from the Collection of Ulrich Otto Sauer, Germany

Jean Tinguely

Casoar (A deux têtes)

Lot Closed

December 3, 03:21 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 EUR

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Ulrich Otto Sauer, Germany

Jean Tinguely

1925 - 1991

Casoar (A deux têtes)


electric motor (110V), metal rod, feathers and paint

188 x 50 x 44 cm; 74 x 19 11/16 x 17 5/16 in.

Executed in 1963.

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Provenant de la collection d'Ulrich Otto Sauer, Allemagne

Jean Tinguely

1925 - 1991

Casoar (A deux têtes)


moteur électrique (110V), barre métallique, plumes et peinture

188 x 50 x 44 cm; 74 x 19 11/16 x 17 5/16 in.

Exécuté en 1963.

Minami Gallery, Tokyo
Sofu Teshigahara, Tokyo
Sogetsu Art Foundation, Tokyo
Christie's, London, Post-War and Contemporary (Day Sale), 5 February 2004, Lot 157
Private Collection, New York
Mitchell Innes and Nash, New York
Hans Mayer Gallery, Düsseldorf
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Hommage aux bambous, March-April 1963, no. 4.
Fukushima, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Animal Sculptures of the 20th Century, April-June 2001, no. 60 (illustrated in colour, p. 129). This exhibition later travelled to Kirishima Open-Air Museum, June-July 2001; to Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, August-September 2001 and to Mie Prefectural Art Museum, September-November 2001.
Pontus Hultén, Jean Tinguely - Méta, Berlin 1972, p. 246
Christiana Bischofberger, Jean Tinguely, catalogue raisonné, sculptures et reliefs 1954-1968, vol. I, Zurich 1982, no. 292, p. 205, illustrated