Contemporary Day Auction

Contemporary Day Auction

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Property from a Private Collection, United States

Louise Nevelson

Dawn's Wedding Pillow

Session begins in

November 21, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Bid

35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection, United States

Louise Nevelson

1899 - 1988


Dawn's Wedding Pillow

wood painted white

6 ½ by 36 ½ by 13 ⅛ in.

15.2 by 92.7 by 33.3 cm.

Executed in 1959.

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1960 by the present owner

Kenneth Sawyer, ed., Nevelson, New York, 1960, pl. IX, np., illustrated (in installation at The Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Arnold Glimcher, Louise Nevelson, New York, 1972, no. 52, pp. 3, 102 and 104, illustrated (in installation at The Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Laurie Wilson, Louise Nevelson: Light and Shadow, New York, 2016, p. 196 (text)

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Sixteen Americans, December 1959 - February 1960

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Louise Nevelson, March - April, 1967, no. 52, p. 59

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; San Francisco Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nevelson: Wood Sculptures, November 1973 - March 1975, no. 19, p. 12, illustrated

Rockland, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Louise Nevelson, 1979, p. 36, illustrated (in installation at The Museum of Modern Art, New York)