Lucas Samaras

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April 10, 02:04 PM GMT

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7,000 - 10,000 USD

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About Face: The David and Gail Mixer Collection of Photographs

Lucas Samaras

1936 - 2024

Figure 7/7/78

unique Polaroid Polacolor II print, dated in pencil on the reverse, framed, a PaceWildensteinMacGill label on the reverse

image: 9½ by 7½ (24.1 by 19.1 cm.)

frame: 17¼ by 14¼ in. (43.8 by 36.2 cm.)

Executed in 1978.

PaceWildensteinMacGill, New York

Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner

"My apartment is a reality that absorbs, challenges, and soothes my mind. It is a springboard to my fantasies. . .I can enjoy objects, surfaces, edges, metaphors, abstractions as I like." - Lucas Samaras (quoted in Samaras Album, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1971, p. 14)