Lucas Samaras

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Sold

125,000 USD

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Description

Lucas Samaras
Box #98
wooden box construction with nails, acrylic, metal, fabric, printed paper collage and Plexiglas

Provenance

The Pace Gallery, New York
Galerie Xippas, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

London, Mayor Gallery, Lucas Samaras, March - April 1978
Tokyo, Galerie Watari, Samaras, May - July 1981, illustrated
Athens, Jean Bernier Gallery, Lucas Samaras, December 1983 - January 1984
Athens, National Gallery of Greece, The Alexander Soutzos Museum, Lucas Samaras: A Retrospective, April - July 2005, p. 182, illustrated

Literature

Peter Mollenkof, "Punishing the Modern Legacy," Asahi Evening News, 29 May 1981, illustrated

Catalogue Note

“I’m an Abstract Expressionist sewer, not a mosaicist.”

Lucas Samaras