John Chamberlain

Estimate

1,500,000 - 2,000,000 USD

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Description

John Chamberlain
White Thumb Four
painted and chromium-plated steel
71 1/2 x 112 1/2 x 32 in. 181.5 x 286 x 81 cm.
Executed in 1978.

Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Thordis Moeller, New York
Heiner Friedrich & Co., Cologne
I Club, Hong Kong
Mr. and Mrs. Asher B. Edelman, New York
Sotheby's, New York, November 15, 1994, lot 35
Private Collection, Pennsylvania
Sotheby's, New York, May 13, 2003, lot 9
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Group Exhibition, 1978
Bern, Kunsthalle; Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Chamberlain, October 1979 - May 1980, cat. no. 4, p. 31, illustrated in color
New York, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, The Other Side, May - July 2006

Literature

Julie Sylvester, John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture 1954 - 1985, New York, 1986, cat. no. 591, p. 161, p. 22, illustrated in color