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THE EMILY FISHER LANDAU COLLECTION: AN ERA DEFINED

Tom Otterness

Frog and Robot

Lot Closed

December 15, 06:13 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Tom Otterness

b. 1952


Frog and Robot

incised with the artist’s signature, date 1985 and number 1/3 (on the frog’s right shoe) 

cast bronze with black patina

34½ by 41 and 41 in.

87.6 by 104.1 by 104.1 cm.

Executed in 1985, this work is number 1 from an edition of 3.

Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1985 by the present owner

The Brooklyn Museum, Working in Brooklyn: Sculpture, October 1985 - January 1986, p. 15, illustrated and p. 29

Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, January - March 1986, p. 251, illustrated and pp. 266 and 268

Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, The Call of the Wild: Animal Themes in Contemporary Art, January - March 1987, p. 5, illustrated

Santa Monica, James Corcoran Gallery and New York, Brooke Alexander Gallery, Tom Otterness, October - November 1990

Staten Island, Newhouse Center Of Contemporary Art, Through the Looking Glass: Visions of Childhood, April - October 1999

Long Island City, Fisher Landau Center of Art, Five Decades of Passion Part One: The Eye of the Collector, 1968-1988, January - March 2009

Long Island City, Fisher Landau Center of Art, Visual Conversations: Selections from the Collection, September - 2012 - April 2013

Judith Russi Kirshner, The Tables: Tom Otterness, Valencia 1991, p. 18, illustrated