Contemporary Art Online | New York
Contemporary Art Online | New York
Property from the Estate of R. Beningson
Lot Closed
March 10, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Estate of R. Beningson
LOUISE NEVELSON
1899 - 1988
UNTITLED
incised with the artist's signature
painted wood construction
Assemblage: 13¾ by 8½ in. (34.9 by 21.6 cm.)
Framed: 19 by 13 in. (48.2 by 33 cm.)
Executed in 1958.
Galerie Couturier, Stamford
Acquired from the above by the present owner
“I go to the sculpture, and my eye tells me what is right for me. When I compose, I don’t have anything but the material, myself, and an assistant...Sometimes it’s the material that takes over; sometimes it’s me that takes over. I permit them to play, like a seesaw. I use action and counteraction, like in music, all the time. Action and counteraction. It was always a relationship—my speaking to the wood and the wood speaking back to me.”
- Louise Nevelson