Contemporary Discoveries
Contemporary Discoveries
De Wain Valentine
Sky Gate
Lot Closed
July 19, 03:01 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
DeWain Valentin
1936 - 2022
Sky Gate
glass, brass, lacquer and wood
73 by 54 by 29½in.
185.4 by 137.2 by 74.9 cm.
Executed in 1985.
Security Pacific National Bank, California
Acquired from the above by the present owner
“I would like to have some way, a magic saw, to cut out large chunks of ocean or sky and say ‘Here it is.’”
De Wain Valentine, quoted in: A Good Time to Be West: 12 California Sculptors, directed by Robin Lough (1984; Los Angeles: California/International Arts Foundation, 2010), DVD.