Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection
Edward Kienholz
The God Tracking Station #1
Auction Closed
September 27, 03:01 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Art Without Boundaries: The Abrams Family Collection
Edward Kienholz
1927 - 1994
The God Tracking Station #1
signed and titled (lower center); signed, titled and dated 59 (on the reverse)
paint and resin on wood, oil lantern, camera, metal and wooden child's toilet
29 ½ by 53 ¾ by 14 in.
74.9 by 136.5 by 35.6 cm.
Executed in 1959.
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Private Collection, Seattle
Sotheby's New York, 18 November 1992, lot 115 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Edward Kienholz, March - May 1966, no. 6, p. 6 and p. 19, illustrated
Houston, Menil Collection, Edward Kienholz, 1954 - 1962, October 1995 - January 1996, no. 16, p. 8 and p. 26, illustrated (incorrectly dated 1958)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Berlinische Galerie, Kienholz: A Retrospective, February 1996 - April 1997, no. 11, p. 39, illustrated and p. 70, illustrated in color (incorrectly dated 1958)
Maurice Tuchman, "A Decade of Edward Kienholz," Artforum, April 1966, p. 41