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ISAMU NOGUCHI (1904-1988)

Lot 150
01.10.2024 13:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1303840
Lot 150 | ISAMU NOGUCHI (1904-1988)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
ISAMU NOGUCHI (1904-1988)
Play Mountain
signed twice and dated twice 'ISAMU NOGUCHI 1933 ISAMU NOGUCHI 1933' (on the side edge of the base)
plaster
4 x 26 x 29 5/8 in. (10.2 x 66 x 75.2 cm.)
Executed in 1933. This work is unique.




Provenance

Milton Hebald, Rome
Acquired from the above by the present owner, circa 1995



Literature

E. Jewell, "Noguchi Sculpture in Metal Exhibited," New York Times, 31 January 1935.
L. Eglington, "Noguchi: Marie Harriman Gallery," Art News, vol. 33, February 1935.
"Social Theme Developed by Noguchi in Show," The Art Digest, vol. 9, no. 9, 1 February 1935.
H. McBride, "Attractions in the Galleries," New York Times, 2 February 1935.
L. Eglington, "Exhibitions in New York, Noguchi," ARTnews, vol. 33, 2 February 1935.
H. Read, "Sculpture, Monumental and Otherwise by Lachaise and Noguchi -- Other Shows," Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 10 February 1935.
A. Millier, "Review of Art: Famous Sculptor Returns to This City of His Birth: Isamu Noguchi Pauses in His Search for a 'Community' to Model Portraits and Design and Swim Pool," Los Angeles Times, 1 September 1935.
"Sculpture by Noguchi at Harriman Gallery," New York Post, 2 February 1935.
T. Wolff, "Sculpture of Spaces," Latin America Daily Post, 16-17 March 1960.
J. Jacobs, "Projects for Playgrounds Prophet without Honor," Art in America, New York, November-December 1967, pp. 44-45.
I. Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's World, New York and Evanston, 1968.
Noguchi & Rickey & Smith, exh. cat., Bloomington, Indiana University Art Museum, 1970, p. 7.
Sculptures By Isamu Noguchi, exh. cat., Tokyo, Minami Gallery, 1973.
P. Cummings, "Oral history interview with Isamu Noguchi," Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art, 7 November-26 December 1973.
W. Anderson, American Sculpture in Process: 1930-1970, Boston, 1975.
S. Hunter, Isamu Noguchi, New York, 1978.
E. Tefft, Proceedings of the Ninth National/International Sculpture Conference: March 31-April 1976, Lawrence, 1978.
J. Hamlin, "Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes," Minnesota Daily, 5 May 1978.
M. Fine, "Noguchi 'Landscapes' the Walker," Argus-Leader, 9 June 1978.
P. Cummings, Artists in Their Own Words, New York, 1979.
N. Grove, "The Visible and Invisible Noguchi," Artforum, vol. 17, no. 7, March 1979.
J. Marter, R. Tarbell and J. Weschler, Vanguard American Sculpture 1913-1939, New Brunswick, 1979.
D. Botnick and N. Grove, The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue, New York and London, 1980.
Isamu Noguchi: 75th Birthday Exhibition, exh. cat., New York, Pace Gallery and André Emmerich Gallery, 1980.
D. Blotnik and N. Grove, The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue, New York and London, 1980.
J. Russell, "Art: Noguchi Spaces At the Whitney," New York Times, 8 February 1980, p. C23.
J. Tallmer, "Playgrounds are no game," New York Post, 9 February 1980.
J. Beardsley, Earthquakes and Beyond, New York, 1984.
N. Grove, Isamu Noguchi: A Study of the Sculpture, New York and London, 1985.
M. Yonekura and K. Shinoyama, "Isamu Noguchi From Scene of Creation," Mizue, Winter 1988.
Isamu Noguchi Portrait Sculpture, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, 1989.
A. Berman, Rebels on Eigth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, 1990.
T. Threfall, Isamu Noguchi: Aspects of a Sculptor's Practice, Sussex, 1991.
H. Senie, Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation and Controversy, New York and Oxford, 1992.
D. Ashton, Noguchi East and West, New York, 1992.
S. Anzai, Anzai: Homage to Isamu Noguchi, Tokyo, 1992.
B. Altshuler, Modern Masters: Isamu Noguchi, New York, 1994.
B. Altshuler and D. Apostolos-Cappadona, eds., Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations, New York, 1994.
R. Mens, "Odysseus van Oost en West," Tableau Fine Arts Magazine, April 1994.
I. Buruma and B. Rychlak, Noguchi and the Figure, Monterey, 1999.
M. Schepps, et. al., Kunstwelten im Dialog: von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, 1999.
A. Torres, Isamu Noguchi: A Study of Space, New York, 2000.
I. Walther, Art of the Twentieth Century, Cologne, 2000.
B. Winther-Tamaki, "Isamu Noguchi: Places of Affiliation and Disaffiliation," Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years, Honolulu, 2001.
M. Treib, Noguchi in Paris: The UNESCO Garden, San Francisco and Paris, 2003.
M. Duus, The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey without Borders, Princeton, 2004.
V. Fletcher, ed., Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor, Washington, D.C., 2004.
L. McGuire, "Isamu Noguchi's Playground Designs," Landscape Architect, September 2004.
Isamu Noguchi: Connecting the World Through Sculpture, Yokohama, 2006.
A. Greene, Isamu Noguchi: A Sculpture for Sculpture, The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, Houston, 2006.
Isamu Noguchi: Between East and West, exh. cat., Andros, Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation, 2010.
S. Sadao, Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi: Best of Friends, New York, 2011.
A. Lyford, Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation 1930-1950, Berkeley, Los Angeles and New York, 2013.
Isamu Noguchi, Patent Holder: Designing the World of Tomorrow, exh. cat., Queens, Dr. M. T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, 2015.
A. Ross, ed., The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, New York, no. 114A (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Marie Harriman Gallery, New Sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, January-February 1935.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Isamu Noguchi, April-June 1968 (another example exhibited).
Oswego, Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York, New Deal for Art, January-February 1977 (another example exhibited).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes, April-June 1978 (another example exhibited).
New York, Rosa Esman Gallery, Places to Be: Unrealized Monumental Projects, January-February 1979 (another example exhibited).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces, February-April 1980 (another example exhibited).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Three Sculptors: Noguchi, Oldenburg, Segal, July-September 1980 (another example exhibited).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Abstract Painting and Sculpture in America 1927-1944, October-December 1983 (another example exhibited).
Venice, 42nd Biennale, Isamu Noguchi: What is Sculpture?, June-September 1986 (another example exhibited).
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Isamu Noguchi Retrospective, March-May 1992 (another example exhibited).
Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Noguchi, April-June 1994 (another example exhibited).
Tokyo, Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art, Play Mountain: Isamu Noguchi and Louis Kahn, November 1995 (another example exhibited).
Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, American Vanguards, January-April 1996 (another example exhibited).
Moncalieri, Italdesign, Giugiaro Museum, Isamu Noguchi: A Study in Sapce, May-June 2001 (another example exhibited).
London, Design Museum, Isamu Noguchi Sculptural Design, July-November 2001 (another example exhibited).
Sapporo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Isamu Noguchi: Energy out of Nothingness, July-August 2005 (another example exhibited).
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Isamu Noguchi at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, July 2008-May 2009 (another example exhibited).
New York, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, On Becoming An Artist: Isamu Noguchi and His Contemporaries: 1923-1960, November 2010-April 2011 (another example exhibited).
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