Lot 9
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YAACOV AGAM | Pace of Time (Time Step)

Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description

  • Yaacov Agam
  • Pace of Time (Time Step)
  • Signed Yaacov Agam, titled and inscribed model mural for Tel Aviv Museum, also inscribed To Skippy and Sidney with friendship Agam (on the reverse)
  • oil on aluminum, mounted on wood
  • image: 10 3/4 by 13 1/4 in.; 27.3 by 36.2 cm
  • mount: 17 1/4 by 20 in.; 43.8 by 50.8 cm
  • Painted in 1966.

Provenance

Sidney E. Frank, New York, acquired directly from the artist
Thence by descent to the present owner

Exhibited

Palm Springs, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Agam in Palm Springs, January - March 1976
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art; Osaka, Daimaru Museum; Kawasaki City Museum, Agam, July - December 1989, no. 34, illustrated in the exhibition catalog p. 70

Condition

In very good original condition; small chips and abrasions on all corners of wood mount, center top right, and center lower left; small dents below image in left center; two small spots of accretion along left edge of image; accretion along upper edge of image; cracquelure with flaking and minor losses to right edge of image; center image is backed with metal. Viewed under UV, no evidence of fluorescing repairs. Lighter pink paint brushed in dark pink diamond, possibly inherent.
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Catalogue Note

See note to Lot 21.