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NOAH PURIFOY (1917-2004)

Lot 108
29.09.2023 14:00UTC -05:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1031405
Lot 108 | NOAH PURIFOY (1917-2004)
Estimate value
$ 60 000 – 80 000
NOAH PURIFOY (1917-2004)

Totem

assemblage construction consisting of wood, nails, pipes, tambourines, shoe stretchers, trolley wheels, found metal objects, felt, rhinestones and leather

56 x 19 x 16 in. (142.2 x 48.3 x 40.6 cm.)

Executed circa 1966.





Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Claude V. Booker, Los Angeles, acquired directly from the artist

Tilton Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2018



Literature

"In Watts: Education Through Art," Chicago Sun Times, Tuesday Magazine, August 1968, p. 4 (illustrated on the cover).

California Black Craftsmen: A Traveling Exhibition of Nineteen Black Craftsmen Living and Working in California, exh. cat., Oakland, Mills College, 1970.

Noah Purifoy: Outside and In the Open, exh. cat., Los Angeles, California African American Museum, 1997, p. 11 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Los Angeles, Watts Summer Festival, 66 Signs of Neon, 1966.

California, Long Beach Museum of Art, Microcosm 69, 1969.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 1972: A Panorama of Black Artists, February-March 1972.

Sacramento, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, West Coast '74: The Black Image, September-October 1974, no. 27.

Milwaukee, Haggarty Museum of Art, Marquette Univeristy, Watts: Art and Social Change in Los Angeles, January-March 2003, pp. 6 and 14 (illustrated).

London, Tate Modern; Bentonville, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; New York, The Brooklyn Museum and Los Angeles, The Broad, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, July 2017-September 2019, pp. 181-182 and 249 (illustrated).
Art style:Post War Art
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