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Property from a Private American Collection

Carl Andre

Lead-Zinc Plain

Auction Closed

May 19, 12:05 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private American Collection

Carl Andre

b. 1935


Lead-Zinc Plain

lead and zinc, in 36 parts

Each: ⅜ by 12 by 12 in. 0.96 by 30.5 by 30.5 cm.

Overall: ⅜ by 72 by 72 in. 0.96 by 182.9 by 182.9 cm.

Executed in 1969.


This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the artist.

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Blenhiem Corporation, Panama City (acquired from the above in 1983)
Mayor Gallery, London (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, London (acquired by the above)
Phillips, New York, 18 May 2000, lot 34
Private Collection
David Zwirner, New York
Acquired from the above in December 2014 by the present owner
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Carl Andre, September - November 1970, no. 32 (as part of 37th Piece of Work),  pp. 56, 75, illustrated in color (in installation) 
Saint Louis Art Museum, Carl Andre, May - June 1971, no. 32 (as part of 37th Piece of Work)
Andover, Addison Gallery of American Art, Six Alloy Plains, March - April 1973
New York, D’Amelio Terras, Four Sculptures, January - February 2000
New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Carl Andre: In His Time, September - December 2015, pp. 18-19, illustrated in color and pp. 25-27, illustrated in color (in installation) 
Peter Schjeldahl, “High Priest of Minimal,” The New York Times, 18 October 1970, p. 23, illustrated (as part of 37th Piece of Work installed in New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1970)
Exh. Cat., Kunsthalle Bern, Carl Andre: Sculpture 1958-1974, 1975, no. 76, p. 42 (as part of 37th Piece of Work)
“Carl Andre: Wood and Metal Sculpture 1960-1975,” Newsletter of the John Weber Gallery, 1976, illustrated (as part of 37th Piece of Work installed in New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1970)
Exh. Cat., New York, Jaap Rietman Inc., Carl Andre Sculpture 1959-1977, 1978, p. 33, illustrated (as part of 37th Piece of Work installed in New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1970) and p. 56, (as part of 37th Piece of Work)
Exh. Cat., London, Whitechapel Gallery, Carl Andre: Sculpture 1959-78, 1978, n.p., (as part of 37th Piece of Work)
Exh. Cat., Berlin, Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Carl Andre: Die Milchstraße, Der Frieden von Münster, und andere Skulpturen, 1985, p. 44, illustrated (as part of 37th Piece of Work installed in New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1970)
Exh. Cat., The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum (and traveling), Carl Andre, 1987, no. 49, pp. 44-45, illustrated (as part of 37th Piece of Work, installed in New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1970)
Exh. Cat., Krefeld, Museum House Lange (and traveling), Carl Andre Sculptor 1996: Krefeld at home, Wolfsburg at large, 1996, no. 1969-79, p. 176 (as part of 37th Piece of Work)
Carl Andre and James Meyer, Cuts: Texts 1959–2004, Cambridge, 2005, p. 141, illustrated (as part of 37th Piece of Work installed in New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1970)
Jack Bankowsky and Alison M. Gingeras, eds., Where Are We Going: Selections from the François Pinault Collection, Milan, 2006, p. 33, illustrated (as part of 37th Piece of Work installed in New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1970)
Alistair Rider, Carl Andre: Things in Their Elements, New York, 2011, fig. 99, p. 79, illustrated in color (as part of 37th Piece of Work installed in New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1970)
Exh. Cat., Dia: Beacon (and traveling), Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958–2010, 2015-2016, p. 38-39, illustrated (as part of 37th Piece of Work installed in New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1970)