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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Louise Nevelson

Dawn Column II

Auction Closed

November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Louise Nevelson

1899 - 1988

Dawn Column II


incised with the artist's signature and date 1960 (on the lateral edge)

wood painted white

98 ⅝ by 8 ⅜ by 8 ¾ in.

250.5 by 21.2 by 9.5 cm.

Executed in 1960.

Martha Jackson, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Luis Accorsi, New York
Dominique Lévy, New York
Acquired from the above in October 2013 by the present owner
Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York, 2016, pp. 159, 222, illustrated in color
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, p. 156, illustrated in color
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; San Francisco Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art; Missouri, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nevelson Wood Sculptures, November 1973 - March 1975, no. 34, illustrated