Lot 133
  • 133

Eva Hesse

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Eva Hesse
  • No Title
  • oil on masonite
  • 15 5/8 by 12 1/8 in. 39.7 by 30.8 cm.
  • Executed in 1960-1961.

Provenance

Estate of the Artist
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich
Acquired by the present owner from the above in October 2004

Exhibited

New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Eva Hesse: Dream Portraits, Paintings from 1960-61, March - April 1996

Literature

Exh. Cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (and travelling), Eva Hesse, 2002, fig. 17, p. 44, illustrated in color
Barry Rose and Renate Petzinger, eds., Eva Hesse Catalogue Raisonné Volume I: Paintings, New Haven, 2006, pp. 140-141, illustrated
Vanessa Corby, Eva Hesse: Longing, Belonging and Displacement (New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts, London, 2010, p. 112

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of light wear and handling along the edges, with a minor area of paint loss along the lower right edge. There are scattered surface abrasions and accretions, with the most notable in the center of the grey central expanse of paint‎. Framed.
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