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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Niki de Saint Phalle

Le Regard Bleu

Auction Closed

March 1, 09:28 PM GMT

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Niki de Saint Phalle

1930 - 2002


Le Regard Bleu

signed, titled and dated 1961 (on the reverse)

assemblage on panel

19¾ by 25¾ by 2½ in.

50.2 by 65.4 by 6.4 cm.

Executed in 1961.

Estate of G. David Thompson, Pittsburgh

Aluminum Company of America Corporate Collection, Pittsburgh (acquired from the above in 1966)

Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1995, lot 138 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art; Ithaca, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University; and traveling, Alcoa Collection of Contemporary Art: An Exhibition of Works Acquired from the G. David Thompson Collection, September 1967 - June 1970, no. 46, illustrated in color

Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Fantastic Vision: Works by Niki de Saint Phalle, September 1987 - January 1988, p. 30, illustrated

Stamford, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, The "Junk" Aesthetic: Assemblage of the 1950s and Early 1960s, April - August 1989

Alcoa Collection of Contemporary Art: Comprising Works Created by International Artists Between 1949 and 1970, England 1973, no. 13, p. 18, illustrated in color and p. 40

Catherine Loewer and Laurence Loewer, eds., Niki de Saint Phalle, Catalogue Raisonné: 1949-2000, Volume 1, Lausanne 2001, no. 279, pp. 134-135, illustrated

Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York 2021, p. 89, illustrated in color