The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Day Auction

The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined | Day Auction

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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Lucas Samaras

Stiff Box #14

Auction Closed

November 9, 06:24 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 USD

Lot Details

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The Emily Fisher Landau Collection: An Era Defined

Lucas Samaras

b. 1936


Stiff Box #14

rusted Cor-ten steel

51 by 43 by 19 in.

129.5 by 109.2 by 48.3 cm.

Executed in 1971, this work is number 1 from an edition of 3.

Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in March 1972 by the present owner
Jonathan D. Lippincott, Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s, New York 2010, p. 109, illustrated in color 
Bruce Kurtz, "Samaras' Autopolaroids," Arts Magazine, vol. 46, no. 3, December 1971 - January 1972, p. 54, illustrated 
Hannah Barton, ed., Lucas Samaras: Boxes, New York, 2017 - ongoing, no. 1971.14, illustrated in color (online) 
New York, Pace Gallery, Lucas Samaras: Stiff Boxes, October - November 1971
New York, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Five Decades of Passion Part One: The Eye of the Collector, 1968-1988, January - April 2009