Lot 34
  • 34

Lucas Samaras

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Lucas Samaras
  • Untitled
  • sculptmetal, board, enamel and fork
  • 14 1/2 by 12 by 3 in. 36.8 by 30.5 by 7.6 cm.
  • Executed in 1961.

Provenance

The Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1967

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Lucas Samaras, November - January 1973, cat. no. 30

Literature

Kim Levin, Lucas Samaras, New York, 1975, pl. 89, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The board is hinged on the reverse to a backing board in multiple places. The overall composition has a vertical, concave curve. There is a very small, unobtrusive loss in the sculptmetal medium at the bottom edge 1 ½ in. from the right side. Framed in a Plexiglas box frame.
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