LARRY BELL | AAAAA 105

Lot Closed

March 10, 04:45 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, California

LARRY BELL

b. 1939

AAAAA 105

signed and dated '07; signed, titled and dated 12/3/07 on the reverse of the frame

evaporated aluminum and silicon monoxide films, acrylic laminating film on Hiromi paper and Mylar fused to canvas, in artist-designed frame

Sheet: 44½ by 30⅛ in. (113 by 76.5 cm.)

Framed: 47⅜ by 32¾ in. (120.3 by 83.2 cm.)

Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica

The Collection of Paul J. Coady, Los Angeles (acquired from the above in 2008)

Bonham's, Los Angeles, Made in California: Contemporary Art, 24 October 2018,

Lot 2

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

“Transparent, reflective, and opaque all at once, the art of Larry Bell has always flirted with contradiction. During the 1960s Bell became known for his vacuum-coated glass cubes mounted on pedestals. Initially aligned with the so-called finish-fetish aesthetic of Los Angeles’s Ferus Gallery, he was equally associated with East Coast Minimalism, yet his works, which brilliantly undermine their objectness, subvert Minimalism’s literalist aims.”

(James Meyer, “Larry Bell”, Artforum, January 2011, Vol. 49, No. 5)