Joel Shapiro

Untitled

Auction Closed

February 22, 03:50 PM GMT

Estimate

250,000 - 350,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection

Joel Shapiro

b. 1941

Untitled

bronze

102 ½ by 43 by 78 in.

260.4 by 109.2 by 198.1 cm.

Executed in 1989, this work is number 3 from an edition of 4 plus 1 artist’s proof.

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Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1990 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Andover, Addison Gallery of American Art, Joel Shapiro: Sculpture in Clay, Plaster, Wood, Iron, and Bronze, September 1997-January 1998, p. 91, illustrated (another example from the edition)

Hendel Teicher, Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Drawings, New York 1998, p. 132, illustrated (another example from the edition)

Peter Reed & Romy Silver-Kohn, Oasis in the City: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2018, pp. 11, 146, 176, illustrated in color (in installation at The Museum of Modern Art) (another example from the edition)

Richard Shiff, Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper, 1969 – 2019, Zurich 2019, p. 62, illustrated in color (in installation at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art) (the present edition)

New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Joel Shapiro, November-December 1990 (another example from the edition)

Humlebæk, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio González; Kunsthalle Zurich; Calais, Musée des Beaux Arts, Joel Shapiro, September 1990-September 1991, pp. 64-65, illustrated in color, p. 70, illustrated in color (in installation at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art) (the present work)

Des Moines Art Center; Baltimore Museum of Art; Miami, Center for Fine Arts, Joel Shapiro: Tracing the Figure, November 1990-June 1991, no. 26, p. 43, illustrated in color (another example from the edition)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Joel Shapiro on the Roof, May-late fall 2001 (another example from the edition)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden: Inaugural Installation, November 2004-December 2005 (another example from the edition)

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Joel Shapiro: The Bronzes, September 2018-January 2019 (another example from the edition)