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Lucas Samaras

Untitled

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

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Lucas Samaras

1936 - 2024


Untitled

tacks, plaster, mirror, fabric, rope, string and wood

open: 17 ½ by 27 ¼ by 1 ½ in.  44.5 by 69.2 by 3.8 cm.

closed: 17 ½ by 13 ½ by 3 in.  44.5 by 34.3 by 7.6 cm.

Executed in 1960.

Guy and Marie-Helene Weill, New York 

Thence by descent to the present owner

New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, New Forms—New Media II, September - October 1960

New York, Green Gallery, Lucas Samaras: Pastels, Plasters, Boxes, Etcetera, December 1961

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Lucas Samaras: Boxes, October - December 1971, n.p., illustrated

New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Lucas Samaras, November 1972 - January 1973, no. 16, p. 8, illustrated

Newark Museum, Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-1963, February - May 1999

John Canaday, “The Blind Artist,” The New York Times, 2 October 1960, p. 21

Donald Judd, “New York Exhibitions: In the Galleries,” Arts Magazine 36, February 1962, p. 44

Exh. Cat., New York, Pace Gallery, Samaras: Selected Works 1960-1966, October - November 1966, p. 19

Ethel Moore, ed., Letters from 31 Artists to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo 1970, p. 37

Kim Levin, Lucas Samaras, New York 1975, no. 69, pp. 26-7

Exh. Cat., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras, 2003, p. 20

Exh. Cat., Athens, The J. F. Costopoulos Foundation, Lucas Samaras: A Retrospective, 2005, p. 50

Jo Applin, Eccentric Objects: Rethinking Sculpture in 1960s America, New Haven 2012, no. 40, p. 64, illustrated

Exh. Cat., New York, Pace Gallery, Lucas Samaras: Me, Myself and…, 2020, p. 37, illustrated

Hannah Barton, ed., Lucas Samaras Catalogue Raisonné: Boxes, 2017 - ongoing, no. 1960.05, illustrated (online)