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MENASHE KADISHMAN | The Forest
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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Description
- Menashe Kadishman
- The Forest
- aluminum panels, in 19 parts
- Each: 72 by 36 in. 183 by 91.4 cm.
- Overall: dimensions variable
- Executed in 1970.
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner
Condition
This work is in very good and sound condition overall and is in good working order. Any scattered surface abrasions or dirt accretions are all to be expected of a work installed in an outdoor environment. Please note this work is being offered from the catalogue.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING CONDITION OF A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD "AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF SALE PRINTED IN THE CATALOGUE.
Catalogue Note
Menashe Kadishman was an important exponent in the late 1960s and early 1970s of the Environmental Art or Land Art movement. A friend of Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Christo, his seminal work The Forest presaged Christo’s Gates in Central Park by some thirty five years.
“Kadishman attached rectangular yellow metal plates to stems of trees in order to create 'a forest within a forest' as he has put it. The organic forms, the eucalyptus trees and the man-made angular technological forms, intermingled to define 'an artistic space' within the given space of nature. The straight-angled metal plates painted in industrially pigmented yellow seemed as if they had come out of a Mondrian painting in order to hover in three dimensions within the colors of nature.” (Amnon Barzel, "From Art to Nature-as-Art,” in Jacob Baal-Teshuva,Ed., Menashe Kadishman, 2008, p. 54)
This work is being offered for sale from the catalogue. Prospective buyers may contact Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Department with inquiries or for an appointment to view the work.
“Kadishman attached rectangular yellow metal plates to stems of trees in order to create 'a forest within a forest' as he has put it. The organic forms, the eucalyptus trees and the man-made angular technological forms, intermingled to define 'an artistic space' within the given space of nature. The straight-angled metal plates painted in industrially pigmented yellow seemed as if they had come out of a Mondrian painting in order to hover in three dimensions within the colors of nature.” (Amnon Barzel, "From Art to Nature-as-Art,” in Jacob Baal-Teshuva,Ed., Menashe Kadishman, 2008, p. 54)
This work is being offered for sale from the catalogue. Prospective buyers may contact Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Department with inquiries or for an appointment to view the work.