Contemporary Day Auction
Contemporary Day Auction
Property from a Private Collection, United States
Dawn's Wedding Pillow
Session begins in
November 21, 03:00 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Bid
35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Private Collection, United States
Louise Nevelson
1899 - 1988
Dawn's Wedding Pillow
wood painted white
6 ½ by 36 ½ by 13 ⅛ in.
15.2 by 92.7 by 33.3 cm.
Executed in 1959.
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1960 by the present owner
Kenneth Sawyer, ed., Nevelson, New York, 1960, pl. IX, np., illustrated (in installation at The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Arnold Glimcher, Louise Nevelson, New York, 1972, no. 52, pp. 3, 102 and 104, illustrated (in installation at The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Laurie Wilson, Louise Nevelson: Light and Shadow, New York, 2016, p. 196 (text)
New York, Museum of Modern Art, Sixteen Americans, December 1959 - February 1960
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Louise Nevelson, March - April, 1967, no. 52, p. 59
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; San Francisco Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Atlanta, The High Museum of Art; Kansas City, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nevelson: Wood Sculptures, November 1973 - March 1975, no. 19, p. 12, illustrated
Rockland, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Louise Nevelson, 1979, p. 36, illustrated (in installation at The Museum of Modern Art, New York)
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