Relief with Saw
Auction Closed
December 1, 03:47 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
After Ivan Puni (Jean Pougny)
1894-1956
Relief with Saw
bearing various labels on the reverse and on the reverse of the perspex box
wood, metal, glass, cardboard, paper and gouache on plywood
Overall: 72.5 by 64.5 by 9cm, 28½ by 25½ by 3½in.
Perspex box: 76 by 67.5 by 15.5cm, 30 by 26½ by 6in.
Xana Boguslavskaya-Puni, the artist's widow, Paris
Collection of Herman Berninger (1911-2012), Zurich
Acquired from the widow of the above by the present owner
H.Berninger and J.-A. Cartier, Pougny, Catalogue de l’oeuvre, vol.1, Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth, 1972, p.198, no.108 listed and another version illustrated b/w
Exhibition catalogue The Planar Dimension: Europe, 1912-1932, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1979, pp.64-65, no.30 illustrated b/w and listed
Exhibition catalogue The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1980, pp.228-229, no.281 illustrated b/w and listed
Exhibition catalogue Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert, Basel: Werner Druck, 1984, p.231, no.180 listed
Exhibition catalogue Raumkonzepte: Konstruktivistische Tendenzen in Bühnen - und Bildkunst 1910-1930, Frankfurt am Main: Städtische Galerie, 1986, p.119, no.56 illustrated b/w and listed
Exhibition catalogue Dada and Constructivism, Tokyo: Tokyo Shimbun, 1988, p.125, IV.15 (no.74) illustrated and listed
Exhibition catalogue Die grosse Utopie: die russische Avantgarde 1915-1932, Frankfurt am Main: Schirn Kunsthalle, 1992, no.73 illustrated; p.765, no.73 listed
Exhibition catalogue The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915–1932, New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1992, no.33 illustrated and listed
Exhibition catalogue Jean Pougny, Paris: Paris-Musées, 1993, pp.96-97, no.7 illustrated and listed
Exhibition catalogue Iwan Puni, 1892-1956, Berlin: Berlinische Galerie, 1993, p.104, no.7 illustrated and listed
Exhibition catalogue Europa, Europa: das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa, Bonn: Christoph Brockhaus, 1994, p.166 listed
Exhibition catalogue Trash: quando i rifiuti diventano arte, Milan: Electa, 1997, p.34, no.6 illustrated and listed
Exhibition catalogue 0,10 - Iwan Puni, Bern: Benteli Verlag, 2003, p.61 illustrated
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Planar Dimension: Europe, 1912-1932, 9 March - 6 May 1979, no.30
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Avant-Garde in Russia, 1910-1930: New Perspectives, 8 July 1980 - 15 February 1981, no.281
Basel, Merian Gärten, Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert, 3 June - 30 September 1984, no.180
Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum, Raumkonzepte: Konstruktivistische Tendenzen in Bühnen - und Bildkunst 1910-1930, 2 March - 25 May 1986, no.56
Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art; Amagasaki, Seibu Tsukashin Hall; Kamakura, The Museum of Modern Art, Dada and Constructivism, 8 October 1988 - 12 February 1989, IV.15 (no.74)
Frankfurt am Main, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915–1932, 1 March - 15 December 1992
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Berlin, Berlinische Galerie, Jean Pougny/Iwan Puni, 1892-1956, 13 May - 14 November 1993, no.7
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Iwan Puni (1892-1956): Werke und Dokumente (1915-1919) aus dem Puni-Archiv Zurich, 29 January - 25 April 1999, no.18
Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Europa, Europa: das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa, 27 May - 16 October 1994
Trento, Palazzo delle Albere, Trash: quando i rifiuti diventano arte, 11 September 1997 - 11 January 1998, no.6
Basel, Museum Jean Tinguely, 0,10 - Iwan Puni, 12 April - 28 September 2003