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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 11, 2023 | Christie's | New York | Masterpieces from the S.I. Newhouse Collection | 1A | $****** - ****** | Untitled | |||
Nov 12, 2003 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art- Evening Sale | 1 | $****** - ****** | Untitled |
paintings
97.8 x 77.8 x 27 cm (38.5 x 30.63 x 10.63 in)
welded steel, canvas, fabric, velvet and wire
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.
Vera G. List, Greenwich (1960);
Sotheby's, New York, 12 November 2003, lot 1.
Gagosian Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2003.
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Lee Bontecou , November-December 1960.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Americans 1963 , May-August 1963, p. 15 (illustrated).
New York, New School Art Center, Sculpture from the Albert A. List Family Collection , October-November 1965, no. 13.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Seven Decades, 1895-1965: Crosscurrents in American Art , April-May 1966, p. 177, no. 344 (illustrated).
Leverkusen, Stadtisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich and Berlin, Kunstverein Haus am Waldsee, Lee Bontecou , March-July 1968, no. 4 (illustrated).
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Governor's Arts Awards , June-July 1970, no. 1 (illustrated).
Ridgefield, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall 1977: Contemporary Collectors , September-December 1977, n.p. (illustrated).
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Lee Bontecou , October-November 1999.
LEE BONTECOU (1931-2022)
Untitled
welded steel, canvas, fabric, velvet and wire
38 1/2 x 30 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (97.8 x 77.8 x 27 cm.)
Executed in 1959-1960
