
Untitled
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
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)