ID 700097
Lot 43 | RAYMOND MATERSON (B. 1954)
Estimate value
$ 2 000 – 4 000
The Trailer Visit, 1994
initialed RM '94 lower left
unraveled sock thread
5 x 3 1⁄2 in.
Provenance
American Primitive Art Gallery, New York
William Louis-Dreyfus, Mount Kisco, New York, 1994 (acquired from the above)
The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation, Mount Kisco, New York, 2016 (gifted from the above)
Literature
Ray Materson and Melanie Materson, Sins and Needles: A Story of Spiritual Mending (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2002), p. 182.
Exhibited
Warwickshire, England, Compton Verney, The Fabric of Myth, 21 June- 7 September 2008.
Tucson, Arizona, The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures, Mending the Soul with Miniature Stitches: the Needlework of Ray Materson, 22 September 2015- 10 January 2016.
Washington, D.C., Four Seasons Hotel, 1998- 2010.New York, Fortnight Institute, You Can't Win: Jack Black's America, 11 July- 18 August 2019.
Post lot text
Sold to benefit The William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Harlem Children's Zone.
| Artist: | Raymond Materson (1954) |
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| Artist: | Raymond Materson (1954) |
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