Important Design
Important Design
Totems of Modernity: Masterworks by Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
An Important Bench
Auction Closed
June 7, 06:14 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Totems of Modernity: Masterworks by Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
An Important Bench
circa 1956-1957
carved and polished granite
27⅞ x 202 x 14 in. (70.8 x 513.1 x 35.6 cm)
This work is being offered for sale from an offsite location and is not at Sotheby’s York Avenue location. Prospective buyers may contact Sotheby’s 20th Century Design Department with inquiries. Please note that the successful purchaser must use Sotheby’s shipping services for collection and delivery after the auction at the buyer’s expense.
Commissioned directly from the artist by the present owner, 1956
"Building with a Future", TIME, September 16, 1957, p. 87 (for the present lot illustrated)
"Insurance Sets a Pattern", Architectural Forum, Boston, September 1957, p. 115 (for the present lot illustrated)
Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi: a Sculptor's World, New York, 1968, pl. no. 214 (for the present lot illustrated)
Nicholas Adams, Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism, New Haven, 2019, pp. 57 and 94 (for the present lot illustrated)
"Insurance Sets a Pattern", Architectural Forum, Boston, September 1957, p. 115 (for the present lot illustrated)
Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi: a Sculptor's World, New York, 1968, pl. no. 214 (for the present lot illustrated)
Nicholas Adams, Gordon Bunshaft and SOM: Building Corporate Modernism, New Haven, 2019, pp. 57 and 94 (for the present lot illustrated)