Lot 180
  • 180

John Chamberlain

Estimate
220,000 - 280,000 USD
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Description

  • John Chamberlain
  • Crystal Catfish III
  • chromium-plated steel
  • 30 1/2 by 20 1/2 by 19 1/2 in. 77.5 by 52 by 49.5 cm.
  • Executed in 1987.

Provenance

Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Galerie Tanit, Munich
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1987

Exhibited

Munich, Galerie Tanit, John Chamberlain, May - June 1987

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. The scattered signs of wear, such as scratches to the paint, minor stable cracking with some losses, some oxidation and the opening in the metal along the bottom are inherent to the nature of the found materials and the artist’s working method. A light dust has settled in some of the crevices.
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Catalogue Note

"John Chamberlain was the first to use automobile metal and to use color successfully in sculpture. He introduced the developments of American expressionism into sculpture and challenged the prevailing idea of sculpture as a solid mass."

Donald Judd, “John Chamberlain by Donald Judd” in Exh. Cat., New York, The Pace Gallery, John Chamberlain: New Sculpture, 1989, p. IV