Tom Sachs

Whitney Museum of American Art, Store Next Door, New York, 1994
Linda Sullivan, Los Angeles

Shopping Cart Furniture, display window in collaboration with Dries van Notten, Barney's, New York, 1993
Whitney Museum of American Art, Store Next Door, New York, 1994

Germano Celant, Tom Sachs, Milan, 2006, pl. 13

Overall good original condition. The metal surfaces with losses to finish and signs of corrosion throughout as expected with the natural aging process of the shopping cart. With scattered nicks, dings and dents. Castors all move with ease.
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The "Shopping Cart Chair" was created by Tom Sachs as part of a collaborative installation with Dries van Notten for a series of windows they designed for Barney's Madison Avenue store in 1993.  The small series of chairs were then given to the Whitney Museum for exhibition and sale at the Store Next Door, the museum's adjacent retail location.  The present lot is one of the earliest works by the artist to appear at auction.