Lot 29
  • 29

Ron Arad b. 1951

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
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Description

  • `Big Heavy'
  • signed and numbered `Ron Arad 17/20'
  • 68 by 68.5 by 85 cm.
  • 26¾ by 27 by 33½ in.
polished stainless steel

Provenance

Patrick Brillet Fine Art, London

Literature

Alexander von Vegesack (ed.), Sticks & Stones One Offs & Short Runs Ron Arad 1980-1990, exhibition catalogue, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1990, pp. 114-115 (for a blackened steel version)
Ron Arad, exhibition catalogue, Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, 2005, pp. 68-69

 

Condition

Excellent condition overall. Piece has a highly reflective mirror polished finish which is not possible to replicate in the catalogue illustration.
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Catalogue Note

`A ... hollow, symmetrical volume, narrowing almost to a knife edge at the back' Deyan Sudjic