JOEL SHAPIRO | Untitled

Edition 1 of 4

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1991

New York, American Fine Arts, Co., Vita Acconci, Jeff Koons, Joel Shapiro, September - October 1991
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden; Kansas City, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Joel Shapiro: Outdoors, May 1995 - October 1996, pp. 20 and 41, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Hendel Teicher, Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Drawing, New York 1998, pl. 192, p. 142, illustrated

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. There are minor and unobtrusive surface scratches, inherent to the artist's chosen medium. There is evidence of wear and handling to the edges, including the top corner of the back vertical element and the lower front edge of the lower arm. There is an abrasion on the lower back edge of the form's main element. There are very light dust accumulations in the crevices of the work.
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"Depending upon the viewer's movement, Shapiro's sculpture shifts from the abstract to the figurative, from hyperkinetic flight to collapse, from purely formal to deeply emotional—like a kaleidoscope whose pieces promise, but finally refuse, to settle into resolution."
Klaus Kertess in Exh. Cat., New York, The Pace Gallery, Joel Shapiro New Wood and Bronze Sculpture, 1998, p. 6