Lot 172
  • 172

Donald Judd

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
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Description

  • Donald Judd
  • Untitled
  • cold rolled steel

  • 10 by 68.8 by 58.5cm.; 4 by 27 by 23in.
  • Executed on 20 March 1974, the form of this object was first used in 1971 with DSS 250.

Provenance

Mr. & Mrs. David Rabinowitch, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1989

Literature

Dudley del Balso, Brydon Smith & Roberta Smith, Donald Judd - Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Objects and Wood-Blocks 1960-1974, Ottawa 1975, p. 270, no. DSS 322

Condition

Colour: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. Patches of tarnishing and spots of oxidisation have occurred over time throughout the steel, and a water mark is visible on the top of the sculpture (also visible in the catalogue illustration). There are further scattered small surface abrasions and rub marks in places throughout the sculpture.
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