A Life in Art: Sculpture from The Mallin Collection Part I

A Life in Art: Sculpture from The Mallin Collection Part I

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A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection

Carl Andre

Sphinges

Auction Closed

February 22, 03:50 PM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection

Carl Andre

b. 1935


Sphinges

eastern pine, in sixteen parts 

overall: 132 by 132 by 36 in. 486 by 486 by 91.5 cm.

each: 12 by 12 by 36 in. 30.4 by 30.4 by 91.5 cm.

Executed in 1985.


This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the artist in 1989.

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Mayor Rowan Gallery, London

Private Collection

Christie’s New York, 12 November 1998, lot 28

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Michael Brenson, “8 Artists in ‘Between Drawing and Sculpture,’” The New York Times, 20 December 1985, p. C29 (text)

Exh. Cat., The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum Den Haag and Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Carl Andre, January-March 1987, no. 22, p. 162 (text)

Benjamin Genocchio, “In Peekskill, 2 Shows of Raw Works,” The New York Times, 26 September 2008 (text) (online)

New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Carl Andre, January 1985

New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Changing Sculpture Exhibition, November 1985-January 1986

London, Mayor Rowan Gallery, Eleven Artists from the Paula Cooper Gallery, May-June 1988

Peekskill, Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Origins, September 2008-July 2009, no. 35, p. 2 (text), p. 35, illustrated in color

Lincoln, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, June - October 2014 (extended loan)