Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art
Property from a Private Collection, Colorado
Ken Price
Sculpture Giving Off Energy
Lot Closed
December 18, 05:36 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, Colorado
Ken Price
1935 - 2012
Sculpture Giving Off Energy
signed and dated 03; titled on the reverse
acrylic and ink on paper
Sheet: 7¾ by 5⅜ in. (19.7 by 13.7 cm.)
Framed: 10½ by 8⅛ in. (26.7 by 20.6 cm.)
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
"His svelte yet pneumatic forms could suggest cartoonish hands, abbreviated Loch Ness monsters or salacious tongues. Others conjured up jellyfish or rogue ocean waves, which Mr. Price, a surfer, knew well...The announcement card for his 1961 show at Ferus featured a photograph of him on a surfboard, his arms extended exultantly skyward. The critic Lucy R. Lippard identified Mr. Price as 'something of a Surrealist, something of a purist, something of an expressionist, something of a naturalist.' Mr. Price himself remarked on the associational richness in his work in a letter to a friend in 1959. Referring to one of his mound-shaped sculptures—which preceded the Eggs and would form his 1960 Ferus debut—he wrote that making it kindled 'fond memories of mountain peaks, breasts, eggs, worms, worm trails, the damp undersides of things, intestines, veins and the like.'"
- Roberta Smith, "Ken Price, Sculptor Whose Artworks Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77," The New York Times, 24 February 2012
- Roberta Smith, "Ken Price, Sculptor Whose Artworks Helped Elevate Ceramics, Dies at 77," The New York Times, 24 February 2012