ISAMU NOGUCHI (1904-1988)

Lot 135
07.12.2023 11:00UTC -05:00
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$ 200 000
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ID 1105276
Lot 135 | ISAMU NOGUCHI (1904-1988)
Estimate value
$ 200 000 – 300 000
ISAMU NOGUCHI (1904-1988)

Model for the Riverside Drive Playground, designed 1961-1962, executed 1985

executed by Tallix Foundry, Beacon, New York

patinated bronze

4 ¾ x 66 ½ x 18 ¾ in. (12 x 169 x 48 cm)

initialed and dated I.N. 1961-'85 with the Tallix foundry mark

from an unnumbered edition of 3





Provenance

Yoshii Gallery, New York

Art Gallery Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, 1990

Acquired from the above by co-owners, circa 2000

Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 2013



Literature

B. Altshuler, Modern Masters: Isamu Noguchi, New York, 1994, pp. 25-28, 114-115 (for a discussion of these playground models)

Play Mountain: Isamu Noguchi + Louis I Kahn, exh. cat., Watari-um Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 1996, pp. 6-7 (present lot illustrated)

Isamu Noguchi: Sculptural Design, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2001, pp. 77, 88-89, 91, 112, 155, 238-239, 286 (for a discussion of these playground models)
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