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Works from the Collection of Jannine and Robert MacDonnell

Isamu Noguchi

Shodo Flowing

Auction Closed

May 15, 12:36 AM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Works from the Collection of Jannine and Robert MacDonnell

Isamu Noguchi

(1904 - 1988)


Shodo Flowing

incised with the artist's signature, numbered A.P., dated 1988 and stamped with the foundry mark (lower edge)

bronze

76 by 16 ½ by 13 in.

193 by 41.9 by 33 cm.

Conceived in 1959 and cast in 1988, this work is artist’s proof 2 from an edition of 6 plus 2 artist’s proofs.

The Pace Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1988 by the present owner

New York, Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., Isamu Noguchi, April 1963, no. 7 (another edition)

Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Isamu Noguchi, June - July 1964, no. 19, n.p. (edition no. unknown)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Isamu Noguchi, April - June 1968, no. 32, p. 59 (text) (another edition)

London, Gimpel Fils, Ltd. and Zurich, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Isamu Noguchi, July - November 1968, no. 5, n.p. (text) (another edition) (dated 1960) (Zurich)

Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Sculptures by Isamu Noguchi, May - June 1973, no. 16 (titled Shodo) (another edition)

New York, Arnold Herstand & Company, Isamu Noguchi: Bronze Sculpture, 1959 - 1962, October - December 1985, p. 19, illustrated in color (edition 5/6)

New York, The Pace Gallery, Isamu Noguchi: Bronze and Iron Sculpture, May - June 1988, no. 13, p. 32, illustrated in color and p. 33, illustrated in color (detail) (the present work) (dated 1960-62)

New York, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Zen No Zen: Aspects of Noguchi's Sculptural Vision, February - June 2002, no. 12, n.p. (text) (edition 4/6)

New York, Lever House, Isamu Noguchi: Sculpture in Stone, Steel and Bronze, January 2004 - January 2005 (edition 4/6)

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Isamu Noguchi at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, July 2008 - May 2009 (edition 4/6)

Dore Ashton, "Trio Tops New York Shows," Studio International, July 1963, p. 20 (text) (another edition)

James Burr, "A Hymn of Hedonism," Apollo, July 1968, p. 63 (text)

James Mellow, "New York Letter," Art International, February 1969, pp. 46-47 (text) (another edition)

"Sculpture by Isamu Noguchi," Japan Architect: International Edition of Shinkenchiku, Vol. 48, No. 8, August 1973, p. 16, illustrated (text) (another edition)

Benjamin Forgey, "Isamu Noguchi's elegant world of space and function," Smithsonian, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 1978, p. 51, illustrated in color (installed in the artist's studio) (edition 4/6)

Diane Botnick and Nancy Grove, The Sculpture of lsamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue, New York 1980, no. 508, p. 91 and n.p., illustrated

Nancy Grove, Isamu Noguchi: A Study of the Sculpture, New York 1985, fig. 105, pp. xv, 101 (text) and p. 262, illustrated (edition 4/6)

Isamu Noguchi, The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, New York 1987, no. 2, p. 89, illustrated (another edition)

Carol Luffy, "Historic Houses: Isamu Noguchi, The Sculptor's Refuge in Japan," Architectural Digest, Vol. 5, No. 9, September 1994, pp. 162-74, 184 (text) (another edition)

Grace Glueck, "Forms to Free the Mind from Worldly Concerns," The New York Times, 19 April 2002, p. E37 (text) (edition 4/6)

Terry Ann R. Neff, ed., The Fisher Collection: L–Z, San Francisco 2007, pp. 146-49, 370, illustrated (edition 3/6)

Light and Shadow: Sculptural Resonances in Space: The Works of Isamu Noguchi from New York and Mure, Sapporo 1998, n.p. (text) (edition 5/6)

Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (and traveling), Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor, 2004-05, n.p. (text) (edition 4/6)

lsamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. 508B-AP2, illustrated in color (online) (accessed 24 April 2026)