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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Eva Hesse

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Auction Closed

November 16, 02:02 AM GMT

Estimate

5,000,000 - 7,000,000 USD

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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Eva Hesse

1936 - 1970


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titled and dated 1965 (on the reverse)

tempera, enamel, cord, found objects (metal, plastic, porcelain), particle board and wood

27 ⅛ by 21 ¼ by 11 in. 68.9 by 54 by 27.9 cm. [variable]

Executed in 1965. 

Estate of the artist 
Friedrich Arnhard Scheidt, Kettwig (acquired from the above in 1972 ) 
Christie's New York, 7 November 1985, lot 199 (consigned by the above) 
Saatchi Collection, London (acquired in 1985)
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in November 1998 by the present owner
Lucy R. Lippard, Eva Hesse, New York, 1976, fig. 61, no. 14, p. 46, illustrated and p. 222
Roberta Smith, "Eva Hesse: The 1965 Reliefs," The New York Times, 20 January 1989, p. C24
Bill Barrette, Eva Hesse SculptureCatalogue Raisonné, New York, 1989, no. 14, pp. 46-47, illustrated in color and p. 256
Rosalind Krauss, The Optical Unconscious, Cambridge and London, 1993, p. 315
Exh. Cat., Flanders, Kanaal Art Foundation (and traveling), Inside the Visible, 1994-1996, p. 496, illustrated in color
Cindy Nemser, Eva Hesse, New York, 2002, p. 51
Barry Rosen and Renate Petzinger, eds., Eva Hesse Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II: Sculpture, New Haven and London, 2006, no. S 18, pp. 26-27, illustrated in color (detail) and pp. 56-57, illustrated in color 
Arthur D. Canto, "All About Eva," The Nation, 17 July 2006, p. 33
Edward Booth-Clibborn, The History of the Saatchi Gallery, London, 2009, p. 135, illustrated in color
Prudence Peiffer, "Eva Hesse 1965," Bookforum, October/November 2013, p. 28, illustrated in color 
Ed Krčma, "Eva Hesse's Wanton Duality: Liquidity and compression in Mechanical drawings of 1965," Master Drawings, vol. LIII, 2015, fig 5, p. 371, illustrated in color 
Meredith Mendelsohn, "Inside Collector Chara Schreyer's Art Filled Home," Cultured, 3 October 2016, illustrated in color (installed in Chara Schreyer's residence, Marin) (online) 
Lorna Koski, "Dream Duo: New Book Details Collaboration of Chara Schreyer and Gary Hutton," Women's Wear Daily, 3 October 2016, illustrated in color (installed in Chara Schreyer's residence, Marin) (online) 
Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York, 2016, pp. 17, 20, 48 and pp. 45, 46, 219, illustrated in color (installed in Chara Schreyer's residence, Marin)
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, pp. 234-235, illustrated in color, p. 236, illustrated in color (installed in Kunsthalle Düsseldorf1965) and pp. 229, 415

Düsseldorf, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Eva Hesse: Material Images and Drawings, August - October 1965, no. 14 
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Flyktpunkter/Vanishing Points, April - May 1984, no. 37, p. 211
New York, Pat Hearn Gallery, Eva Hesse, November - December 1987 
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Eva Hesse: The 1965 Reliefs, January 1989 
Valencia, IVAM Julio González and Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Eva Hesse, February - June 1993, pl. 78, p. 121, illustrated in color and fig. 21, p. 178, illustrated (installed in Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen1965)
Ulm, Ulmer Museum; and Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Eva Hesse: Drawing in Space - Bilder und Releifs, March - October 1994, pp. 34, 49 and p. 171, illustrated in color
Zürich, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Painting from Germany, May - June 1996
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, About Painting (Part II), October 1997
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum Wiesbaden; and London, Tate Modern, Eva Hesse: A Retrospective, February 2002 - February 2003, pl. 49, no. 115., pp. 165, 171, 323 and p. 171, illustrated in color (traveled to San Francisco only)