Duane Hanson

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

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Description

Duane Hanson
Artist With Ladder
polychromed polyester resin and fiberglass, mixed media and accessories
71 by 41 by 45 in. 180.3 104.1 by 114.3 cm.
Executed in 1972.

Provenance

Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City
Collection of Mr. Harry Litwin, Wichita
Collection of Bill Fromm, Kansas City
Christie's, New York, 15 November 2012, Lot 266
Private Collection, Chicago (acquired from the above sale by the present owner)

Exhibited

Wichita State University, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art; Lincoln, University of Nebraska Art Galleries; Des Moines Art Center; Berkeley, University of California, University Art Museum; Portland Art Museum; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Duane Hanson, October 1976 - April 1978, p. 51, illustrated in color

Literature

Robert Hughes, "Making the Blue-Collar Waxworks," Time, Vol. III, No. 8, 20 February 1978, p. 92, illustrated in color
Kirk Varnedoe, Duane Hanson, New York 1980, p. 50, illustrated in color
Martin H. Bush, Sculptures By Duane Hanson, Wichita 1985, p. 85, illustrated in color
Thomas Buchsteiner and Otto Letze, Eds., Duane Hanson: More Than Reality, New York 2001, cat. no. 25, p. 41, illustrated in color
Thomas Buchsteiner and Otto Letze, Eds., Duane Hanson: Sculptures of the American Dream, Ostfildern 2007, no. 25, p. 41, illustrated in color

Catalogue Note

"This is an artist I knew in New York. I was fascinated by the clothing he wore—the splattered and taped trousers, the ripped and worn-out shoes, the plaster spots on his apron. His clothes suggested some of the equipment he frequently used. I wanted to describe, through his clothing, the messy work an artist must do to complete a finished work of art."
Duane Hanson