Lot 368
  • 368

Joel Shapiro

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Joel Shapiro
  • Untitled
  • signed, inscribed with the date 77 and number 3/3 on the underside
  • bronze
  • 21.5 by 82.5 by 30.5cm.; 8 1/2 by 32 1/2 by 12in.

Provenance

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1977

Exhibited

Stockholm, Galerie Aronowitsch, Joel Shapiro, 1977
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Joel Shapiro, 1980, no. 12

Literature

Hendel Teicher, Joel Shapiro Sculpture and Drawings, New York 1999, p. 75, no. 87, illustration of another cast

Condition

Colours: The colours are fairly accurate in the catalogue illustration. Condition: This work is in good condition. There are light rub marks and a few superficial scratches scattered predominantly to the front side edge and the top surface of the composition, visible in the catalogue illustration. There are a few further light rub marks, superficial scratches and isolated spots of oxidation scattered in places throughout the front and rear of the composition. There is some minor rubbing in places along the corner edges of the top surface and there is a tiny indentation towards the lower section of the right hand edge of the front side of the composition, visible in the catalogue illustration.
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