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Property from the Irma and Norman Braman Art Foundation

Richard Artschwager

Lefrak City

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:24 PM GMT

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Irma and Norman Braman Art Foundation

Richard Artschwager

1923 - 2013


Lefrak City

acrylic on Celotex in artist's Formica frame

44 ¾ by 97 ½ in.

113.7 by 247.7 cm.

Executed in 1962.

Private Collection, Florida

Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Acquired directly from the above in 1992 by the present owner


William Zimmer, "Art; Enigmatic and Witty Work, Done With Building Materials," The New York Times, Section 12NJ, p. 11

Kurt W. Forster, "Authentic Imitations of Genuine Replicas," Parkett, vol. 46, Zürich 1996, p. 45, illustrated in color and pp. 49 and 54

Exh. Cat., Neues Museum Nuremberg (and traveling), Richard Artschwager: Up and Across, September 2001 - June 2002, p. 14, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Vienna, Museum of Applied Arts, Richard Artschwager: The Hydraulic Door Check, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, March - June 2002, pp. 102 and 171, illustrated in color

John Yau and Eve Aschheim, "Richard Artschwager in Conversation with John Yau & Eve Aschheim," The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2008

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (and traveling), Richard Artschwager!, October 2012 - September 2013, no. 49, p. 49, illustrated in color

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Richard Artschwager, January 1988 - January 1989, p. 24 and no. 8, p. 53, illustrated

Madison, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Phyllis Rothman Gallery, Richard Artschwager, April 1990

Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau; London, Royal Academy of Arts and London, Saatchi Gallery, American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913 - 1993, July - December 1993, no. 192, illustrated in color

North Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art, Painting into Photography / Photography into Painting, December 1996 - February 1997, p. 49

Bignan, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Step to Entropy: Richard Artschwager, June - September 2003, no. 54, p. 54, illustrated in color