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Marisol Escobar

The Blacks

Auction Closed

May 16, 09:24 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 400,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Marisol

1930 - 2016


The Blacks

wood, acrylic, graphite, plaster, fabric and glass eyes, in 2 parts

i: 79 by 16 ½ by 15 in. (201.6 by 41.9 by 39.7 cm.)

ii: 76 by 12 by 11 in. (193.4 by 32.7 by 27.9 cm.)

Executed in 1961-62.

Stable Gallery, New York

Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis (acquired circa 1963)

Acquired from the above circa 1968 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Marisol: Sculptures and Works on Paper, June - September 2014, p. 29, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., Buffalo AKG Art Museum (and traveling), Marisol: A Retrospective, October 2023 - July 2025, p. 24

New York, Stable Gallery, Marisol, May 1962, no. 4

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Americans 1963, May - August 1963, p. 73, illustrated

Purchase, Neuberger Museum of Art and Delaware Art Museum, Marisol, June 2001 - January 2002, no. 7, p. 32, illustrated in color

New York, Lévy Gorvy Dayan Rohatyn, Stage Fright, April - June 2022