Lee Bontecou

Untitled

Auction Closed

November 16, 02:02 AM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Lee Bontecou

1931 - 2022

Untitled

welded steel, porcelain, cloth, wire mesh and wire

23 by 20 by 19 in. 58.4 by 50.8 by 48.3 cm.

Executed in 1983.

The artist

Bill Maynes, New York

Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, p. 115, illustrated in color and pp. 117, 228-229, 413

Los Angeles, Hammer Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, October 2003 - January 2004, pl. 119, pp. 117, 230, illustrated in color