Peter Fischli & David Weiss
Wurzel (Root)
Lot Closed
March 4, 04:22 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Peter Fischli and David Weiss
b. 1952 and 1946 – 2012
Wurzel (Root)
cast rubber
17½ by 21½ by 7½ in.
44.4. by 54.6 by 19 cm.
Executed in 1987, this work is from an edition of 6.
Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Montserrat Palacios at Montserrat.Palacios@sothebys.com
Ileana Sonnabend, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Nina Castelli Sundell, New York (by descent from the above)
Christie's, New York, 14 May 2015, lot 484 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Bordeaux, CAPC Musée d'art contemporain and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Collection Sonnabend: 25 Années de Choix et d'Activités d'Ileana et Michael Sonnabend, October 1987 - August 1988, p. 317, illustrated in color (present example)
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Sammlung Sonnabend: Von der Popart bis heute Amerikanische und europäische Kunst seit 1954, February - May 1996, p. 145, illustrated in color (present example)
Saratoga Springs, Skidmore College, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery; Columbus, Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts; Milwaukee Art Museum, From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, June 2002 - May 2003, p. 79, illustrated in color (present example)
London, Sprüth Magers, Objects on Pedestals, January - March 2009 (another example exhibited)
Robert Fleck, Beate Söntgen and Arthur C. Danto, eds., Peter Fischli David Weiss, London and New York, 2005, pp. 128-129, illustrated
R. Goldmann, Peter Fischli David Weiss. Ausflüge, Arbeiten, Ausstellungen. Ein offener Index, Cologne, 2006 no. 345 p. 247, illustrated