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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Lucas Samaras

Box #110

Auction Closed

November 16, 02:02 AM GMT

Estimate

300,000 - 500,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Lucas Samaras

b. 1936


Box #110

wooden box construction with acrylic, yarn, glass beads, plastic, metal, fabric and collage

open: 17 ½ by 21 ½ by 13 ½ in. 44.5 by 54.6 by 34.3 cm.

closed: 11 by 14 ½ by 8 ¼ in. 27.9 by 36.8 by 21 cm.

Executed in 1983.

The artist

The Pace Gallery, New York 

Aron and Phyllis Katz, Boulder (acquired from the above in May 1984)

PaceWildenstein, New York 

Acquired from the above in May 2005 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., New York, Hollis Taggart Galleries, Image in the Box: From Cornell to Contemporary, 2008, p. 24

Exh. Cat., Athens, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, 53rd International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (Greek participation), Paraxena: Lucas Samaras, 2009, p. 75, illustrated in color

Hannah Barton, ed., Lucas Samaras: Boxes, New York, 2017, no. 1983.02, illustrated in color (online)

Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York, 2016, pp. 16, 21, 23, 218, illustrated in color (installed in Chara Schreyer's residence, Marin)

Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, p. 93, illustrated in color and p. 418

Camille Freestone, "This Stunning Home Is The Perfect Synthesis Of Curation & Design," Coveteur, 2 February 2022, illustrated in color (online) (installed in Chara Schreyer's residence, Marin)

Denver Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum; Atlanta, High Museum of Art; Miami, The Center for the Fine Arts; Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Lucas Samaras: Objects and Subjects 1969-1986, May 1988 - November 1989, no. 13, pp. 156-157, illustrated in color and pp. 59, 228 

Yokohama Museum of Art; and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, [Self: 1961-1991] Lucas Samaras, October 1991 - May 1992, no. 6, p. 36, illustrated in color and p. 166

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras, November 2003 - February 2004, p. 238, illustrated in color