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John Chamberlain

Golden Smell

Auction Closed

September 28, 08:29 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

John Chamberlain

1927 - 2011

Golden Smell


acrylic lacquer and polyester resin on aluminum 

64 by 61 by 35 in.

162.6 by 154.9 by 88.9 cm.

Executed in 1973.

Dia Art Foundation, New York (acquired directly from the artist in 1980)
Sotheby’s, New York, 13 November 2013, lot 176 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Essex, Dia Art Foundation, Chamberlain Gardens: Essex, May - November 1982, May 1983
Julie Sylvester, ed., John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture: 1954-1985, New York 1968 no. 448, pp. 128-129, illustrated in color 
William Zimmer, "Idiosyncratic Sculpture in Idyllic Garden," The New York Times, 14 November 1982 (text)
Richard Kostelanetz, Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes, Second Edition, New York 1993, p. 113 (text)