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Charles LeDray
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
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Description
- Charles LeDray
- Untitled (Web)
embroidered with the artist's name; signed and dated 92
- fabric, thread and buttons
- 79 by 57 in. 200.7 by 144.8 cm.
Provenance
Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1993
Exhibited
New York, Tom Cugliani Gallery, Charles LeDray, January - February 1993
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art and traveling, Charles LeDray: Sculpture 1989-2002, May 2002 - July 2003, p. 59, illustrated
Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art and traveling, Charles LeDray: Sculpture 1989-2002, May 2002 - July 2003, p. 59, illustrated
Catalogue Note
"LeDray gets the hurt of childhood to live in these voodoo-doll sculptures. It's as if this sadness and suffering, misery and malaise were displaced onto these poor deformed creatures so that the maker -- or the viewer -- might not have to know such trials, not have to bear the full brunt of such piercing ordeals. They have a sacrificial quality to them. They're so lovingly hand-made you want to cuddle them, care for them, take them out to play. They're so small and fragile that you know you've got to treat them gently. They're like infants in this way -- they inspire that kind of love and protectiveness." - Jerry Saltz ("It Don’t Come Easy: Charles LeDray’s 'workworkworkworkwork'", Arts Magazine, April 1992, pp. 23-34)