Lot 3
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ISAMU NOGUCHI | Floor Frame

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
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Description

  • Isamu Noguchi
  • Floor Frame
  • bronze, in 2 parts
  • i. 14 by 40 by 25 1/2 in. 35.6 by 101.6 by 64.8 cm.
  • ii. 6 1/2 by 6 1/2 by 13 1/2 in. 16.5 by 16.5 by 34.3 cm.
  • Executed in 1962, this work is number 1 from an edition of 6.

Provenance

Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York
Bianchini Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in January 1968)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1968

Exhibited

New York, Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., Isamu Noguchi, April 1963, cat. no. 11, n.p. (text)
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Isamu Noguchi, 1964, p. 32, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art, American Sculpture of the Sixties, April - June 1967, cat. no. 100, p. 165, illustrated
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Isamu Noguchi, April - June 1968, cat. no. 34, pp. 34-35, illustrated
New York, Arnold Herstand & Company, Isamu Noguchi: Bronze Sculpture, 1959-1962, October - December 1985, pp. 12, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Literature

Michael Fried, “New York Letter," Art International, 25 May 1963, p. 56, illustrated
Isamu Noguchi, A Sculptor's World, New York 1968, pp. 104 and 247, illustrated
Sam Hunter, Isamu Noguchi, New York 1978, pp. 126-27, illustrated
Nancy Grove and Diane Botnick, The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue, New York and London 1980, cat. no. 519, pp. 94-96, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Nancy Grove, Isamu Noguchi: A Study of the Sculpture, New York and London 1985, pp. 95-96, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Tokyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Isamu Noguchi Retrospective, 1992, cat. no. 55, p. 109, illustrated
Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor, 2004 - 2005, p. 192, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. Under close inspection there are several scratches, dents and abrasions visible throughout. Under very close inspection there is a 1/4 of an inch loss to one of the front corner tips of the larger element. Under further close inspection there is a 1/4 of inch puncture to the left leg of the larger element.
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Catalogue Note

"The essence of sculpture is for me the perception of space, the continuum of our existence. All dimensions are but measures of it, as in the relative perspective of our vision lie volume, line, point, giving shape, distance, proportion. Movement, light, and time itself are also qualities of space. Space is otherwise inconceivable. These are the essences of sculpture and as our concepts of them change so much our sculpture change." Isamu Noguchi