Marisol

The Bicycle Race

Auction Closed

September 27, 03:01 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection

Marisol

1930 - 2016

The Bicycle Race

signed and dated 1963 (right hip of figure 1)

wood, two bicycles, sunglasses, paint, graphite, cast plaster, cast metal and plastic, in 2 parts

figure 1: 68 by 26 by 64 in. 172.7 by 66 by 139.7 cm.

figure 2: 66 by 24 by 55 in. 167.6 by 61 by 139.7 cm.

Executed in 1962-63.

Please note, this work has been requested for inclusion in the ongoing exhibition, Marisol: A Retrospective, held at the Dallas Museum of Art from 23 February - 6 July 2025.

Stable Gallery, New York

Harry N. Abrams, New York (acquired from the above in March 1963)

Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner

George P. Hunt, ed., "Living with Pop Art," Life Magazine, vol. 59, no. 3, 16 July 1965, p. 60, illustrated in color (titled Bicycle Riders)

José Ramón Medina, Marisol, Caracas 1968, p. 39, illustrated (titled Ciclistas and dated 1962)

Clara Diament de Sujo, "The Itinerary of Marisol," XXXIV Biennale di Venezia / 1968 / Venezuela, 1968, n.p., illustrated (dated 1962)

Edmund Burke Feldman, Varieties of Visual Experience: Art as Image and Idea, New York 1972, illustrated in color on the cover and spine and p. 476, illustrated in color

Elaine Donelson and Jeanne E. Gullahorn, Women: A Psychological Perspective, New York 1977, p. x, illustrated

Sandra Furlotti Reberschak, "I Grandi Colezionisti: A Katonah e a New York, le case e l'ufficio di Harry Abrams: I mille e uno quadri di un grande editore d'arte," Bolaffi Arte, no. 67, anno VIII, February - March 1977, pp. 40-41, illustrated in color (titled ciclisti)

London, Tate Gallery, Painting & Sculpture of a Decade, 54-64, April - June 1964, no. 328, p. 253, illustrated

New York, New School Art Center, The Artist's Reality: An International Sculpture Exhibition, October - November 1964, no. 24, n.p., illustrated (titled Bicycle Race)

New York, The Jewish Museum, The Harry N. Abrams Family Collection, June - September 1966, no. 91 (titled Bicycle Race and dated 1963)

Venice, Venezuelan Pavilion, XXXIV Venice Biennale, June - October 1968 (titled La carrera de bicicletas and dated 1962)

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Marisol, November - December 1968, illustrated on the cover (titled De wielarwedstrijd and dated 1962)

Worcester Art Museum, Marisol, September - November 1971, n.p., illustrated (titled The Bicycle Riders and dated 1962)

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, De Fiets, April - June 1977, pl. 71, p. 146, illustrated in color (titled The Bicycle Riders and dated 1962)

Brooklyn Museum, Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958-1968, Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, October 2010 - January 2011, p. 179, illustrated in color (titled Bike Riders and dated 1962)

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Toledo Museum of Art, Marisol: A Retrospective, October 2023 - June 2024, fig. 51, p. 51 and p. 54, illustrated in color and p. 206, illustrated (titled Bicycle Race and dated 1962)