Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation
George Segal
Depression Breadline
Auction Closed
November 21, 10:28 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Private Collection Sold to Benefit a Charitable Foundation
George Segal
1934 - 2021
Depression Breadline
bronze with dark patina, in 7 parts
overall: 106 by 150 by 38 in.
269.2 by 381 by 96.5 cm.
Conceived in 1991 and cast in 2008, this work is number 4 from an edition of 7 of which 5 have been realized.
Carroll Janis, New York
Acquired from the above in 2008 by the present owner
Bentonville, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (permanent collection) (original plaster cast exhibited)
Washington, D.C., Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Depression Breadline Public Installation, 1999 - present (another example exhibited)
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008 - present (permanent collection) (another example exhibited)
Hamilton, Grounds for Sculpture, 2014 - present (permanent collection) (another example exhibited)
Martin Friedman, "George Segal," Artforum, vol. 47, no. 5, January 2009, pp. 77-78, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)
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