Modern Evening Auction
Modern Evening Auction
Totems of Modernity: Masterworks by Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
The Family
Auction Closed
May 17, 12:56 AM GMT
Estimate
6,000,000 - 8,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Totems of Modernity: Masterworks by Noguchi
Isamu Noguchi
1904 - 1988
The Family
Stony Creek granite
height (of tallest figure): 192 in. 487.7 cm.
Executed in 1956-57.
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 Impressionist and Modern Art Department at Jonathan.Boos@sothebys.com 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 in 1956 by the present owner
"A Dramatic New Office Building," Fortune, vol. 56, no. 3, September 1957, p. 168, illustrated
"Symposium in Symbolic Setting," LIFE Magazine, vol. 43, no. 17, 12 October 1957, pp. 49-50, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor, 2004-05, pp. 153 and 155, illustrated
Joan M. Marter, Ed., The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, vol. I, Oxford, 2011, p. 561
Nina Rappaport and Erica Stoller, Ezra Stoller Photographer, New Haven and London, 2012, pp. 96-97, illustrated
Hayden Herrera, Listening to Stone, New York, 2015, pp. 320-21, illustrated
Peter Osier, ed., The History of Western Sculpture, New York, 2015, p. 177, illustrated in color
"Symposium in Symbolic Setting," LIFE Magazine, vol. 43, no. 17, 12 October 1957, pp. 49-50, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor, 2004-05, pp. 153 and 155, illustrated
Joan M. Marter, Ed., The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, vol. I, Oxford, 2011, p. 561
Nina Rappaport and Erica Stoller, Ezra Stoller Photographer, New Haven and London, 2012, pp. 96-97, illustrated
Hayden Herrera, Listening to Stone, New York, 2015, pp. 320-21, illustrated
Peter Osier, ed., The History of Western Sculpture, New York, 2015, p. 177, illustrated in color