Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim
Bravo
Auction Closed
November 16, 11:16 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Life of Beauty: The Collection of John Cheim
Lynda Benglis
b. 1941
Bravo
aluminum wire mesh, cotton bunting and plaster with sprayed zinc, bronze and copper
27 by 10 by 10 in.
68.6 by 25.4 by 25.4 cm.
Executed in 1973-74.
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1974)
Sotheby's New York, 3 May 1988, lot 97 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in 1988 by the present owner
Exh. Cat., New York, Cheim & Read, Lynda Benglis: A Sculpture Survey 1969-2004, February - April 2004, n.p., illustrated in color
Caroline Hancock, Franck Gautherot and Seungduk Kim, Eds., Lynda Benglis, Dijon, 2009, p. 288, illustrated in color
Anna Dickie, "A Conversation with Lynda Benglis," Ocula, 28 February 2015, illustrated in color (online)
Anna Dickie and Stephanie Bailey, Eds., Ocula Conversations, Hong Kong, 2016, p. 198, illustrated in color
Claudine Humblet, Post-minimalisme et Anti-form:dépassement del'esthétique minimale, Paris, 2016, p. 179, illustrated in color
Adina Glickstein, "Lynda Benglis is Back - Knots, Pours, Dildos, and All," Hyperallergic, 7 October 2020, illustrated in color (online)
Houston, Texas Gallery, Lynda Benglis, November - December 1973
New York, Cheim & Read, Lynda Benglis Louise Bourgeois: Circa 70, June - August 2007, n.p., illustrated in color
Wakefield, The Hepworth Wakefield Museum, Lynda Benglis, February - July 2015
Puebla, Museo Internacional del Barroco, Cuerpos, Materia y Alma: Las Esculturas de Lynda Benglis / Bodies, Matter and Soul: The Sculptures of Lynda Benglis, September 2016 - March 2017
New York, Cheim & Read and Ortuzar Projects, Lynda Benglis: Early Work 1967-1979, October - December 2020, n.p., illustrated in color