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Property from an Important Private Collection, USA

Donald Judd

Untitled

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May 16, 01:17 AM GMT

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

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Property from an Important Private Collection, USA

Donald Judd

1928 - 1994 


Untitled

blue lacquer on aluminum and brass

8 ¼ by 161 by 8 in.

21 by 409 by 20.3 cm.

Executed in 1969, this is the first of 3 works in this form, material, and configuration. 

Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich (acquired from the artist in 1969)

Mr. and Mrs. Andre F. Esselier, Switzerland (by 1975)

Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco (acquired from the above in 2016)

Acquired from the above in June 2016 by the present owner

Dudley Del Baso, Brydon Smith and Roberta Smith, eds., Donald Judd :Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Objects and Wood-Blocks 1960-1974, Ottawa 1975, no. 193, pp. 125, 199 (text)

Exh. Cat., Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum, Donald Judd, 1979, n.p., illustrated (image inverted) (installed in Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, 1970) (example no. unknown)

Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum; Kunstverein Hannover; and London, White Chapel Art Gallery, Don Judd, January - November 1970, no. 2, p. 86, illustrated (incorrectly dated 1965) (Eindhoven and London); no. 2, p. 79, illustrated (image inverted) (installed in Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, 1970) (Kunstverein) (traveled to Eindhoven and Kunstverein only) (example no. unknown)