Important Design

Robert Wilson

Hamlet machine Chair

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May 28, 12:30 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 EUR

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Description

Robert Wilson

Hamlet machine Chair

Designed circa 1987

Welded perforated angle iron and black-lacquered steel sheet

Edited by XO, France

Signed Robert Wilson and numbered 125 on the seating

98 × 29 × 43,5 cm ; 38 ⅝ x 11 ⅜ x 17 ⅛ in.

Artcurial, Paris, 28 February 2011, lot 61

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Private collection, Belgium

Franco Quadri and al., Robert Wilson, New York, 1998, p. 61, 126 and 128

Margery Arent Safir and Marina Abramović, Robert Wilson: from Within, Paris, 2011, p. 192

Owen Laub, Robert Wilson: Chairs, New York, 2025, p. 54-55

This model is in the Art Institute of Chicago collection (inv. 2021.116) and the Centre national des arts plastiques collection (inv. FNAC 04-463), Paris.

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