Lot 93
  • 93

JOEL SHAPIRO | Untitled

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Joel Shapiro
  • Untitled
  • incised with the date 1989 and number 2/4 on the underside of the sculpture
  • bronze
  • 70 by 80 by 30 in. 177.8 by 203.2 by 76.2 cm.
  • Executed in 1989, this work is number 2 from an edition of 4.

Provenance

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Waddington Galleries, London
Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Sotheby's, New York, 6 May 1992, Lot 28
Private Collection, United States
Christies, New York, 13 November 2014, Lot 284
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner 

Exhibited

London, Waddington Galleries, Joel Shapiro, October 1989, pp. 14-15, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Varberg, Museet i Varberg; and Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Joel Shapiro: Skulptur & Grafik, 1985-1990, September 1990 - February 1991, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)
Baltimore Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; and Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Joel Shapiro: Tracing the Figure, August 1990 - June 1991, cat. no. 1, n.p., illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Literature

Robert Hughes, "Sculpture of the Absurd," Time, 1 October 1990, pp. 100-102, illustrated

Catalogue Note

“Human mood and movement are reduced to a geometric essence that is itself caught in an unclassical, all-too-human process of fluctuation, open to the viewer’s perception and speculation.” Roberta Smith, “Joel Shapiro Looks Back, Differently,” in: The New York Times, 31 March 1995, online