ID 920990
Lot 126 | MARY BAUERMEISTER (1934-2023)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
My Contribution to Light Art is Dead Serious Art
signed, titled and dated '"my contribution to light Art" Mary Bauermeister 1966' (on the reverse)
ink, offset print, glass, glass lens, wooden sphere, casein tempera, fluorescent color and painted wood construction, in six parts
42 x 113 1/2 x 5 3/4 in. (106.7 x 288.3 x 14.6 cm.)
Executed in 1967.
Provenance
Fernanda Bonino Gallery, New York
By descent from the above to the present owner
Literature
Mary Bauermeister. Gemälde und Objekte 1952-1972, exh. cat., Koblenz, Mittelrhein Museum, 1972, p. 87 (illustrated).
Welten in der Schachtel. Mary Bauermeister und die experimentelle Kunst der 1960er Jahre, exh. cat., Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm-Hack Museum, 2010, p. 50, fig. 10 (illustrated).
L. Holland, "Inside a Kaleidoscope. Mary Bauermeister's glittering microcosms," Preview Massachusetts, April 2015, p. 11 (illustrated).
Mary Bauermeister. Zeichen Worte Universen. Sign Words Universes, exh. cat., Bergisch Gladbach, Kunstmuseum Villa Zanders, 2017, p. 53.
Exhibited
New York, Galeria Bonino, LTD., Anything Anywhere always anyway all things involved in all other things, February-March 1967, n.p., no. 21 (illustrated).
Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, Mary Bauermeister: The New York Decade, January-May 2015, pp. 34, 35 and 108, no. 6 (illustrated).
New York, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Mary Bauermeister: Omniverse, April-May 2016.
Artist: | Mary Bauermeister (1934 - 2023) |
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Art style: | Post War Art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
Artist: | Mary Bauermeister (1934 - 2023) |
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Art style: | Post War Art |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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