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A Singular Vision: The Collection of Thomas N. Armstrong III & Whitney “Bunty” Armstrong

Mark di Suvero

Sparta

Session begins in

November 21, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

60,000 - 80,000 USD

Bid

50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A Singular Vision: The Collection of Thomas N. Armstrong III & Whitney “Bunty” Armstrong

Mark di Suvero

b. 1933


Sparta

painted steel

79 by 42 by 60 in.

200.7 by 106.7 by 152.4 cm.

Executed in 1966.

Park Place Gallery, New York

Frank H. Porter, Cleveland (acquired from the above in November 1966)

Christie's New York, 11 November 2004, lot 208 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Harris Rosenstein, "Di Suvero: The Pressures of Reality," ARTnews, vol. 65, no. 10, February 1967, p. 38, illustrated in color

Edward B. Henning, "An Important Sculpture by John Chamberlain," Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 60, no. 8, October 1973, p. 245, illustrated in color

Avis Berman, Mark di Suvero: Sparta, New York, 2008

Tom Armstrong, A Singular Vision, Architecture, Art, Landscape, New York, 2011, pp. 5 and 195, illustrated in color, and pp. 194, 196, and 228 (text)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Mark di Suvero, November 1975 - Februrary 1976, no. 37, p. 48, illustrated in color

New York, The Rockefeller University, Rockefeller University Sculpture Exhibition, May 2005 - December 2006