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