ID 1426120
Lot 361 | YAACOV AGAM (B. 1928)
Estimate value
$ 10 000 – 15 000
Plastic Games
signed, dated and inscribed 'YAAKOV AGAM 1956 PARIS' (on the reverse)
oil on wood relief
17 5/8 x 15 ¼ in. (44.8 x 38.7 cm.)
Executed in Paris in 1956
Provenance
Galerie Denise René, Paris.
Nannette and Herbert Rothschild, New York and Ossining (acquired from the above, 1958).
By descent from the above to the present owners.
Literature
Y. Agam, Yaacov Agam, Neuchâtel, 1962, no. 25 (illustrated).
G.H. Marcus, ed., Encounters with Modern Art, The Reminiscences of Nanette F. Rothschild, Works from the Rothschild Family Collections, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1996, p. 97, fig. 72 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Paris, Galerie Denise René, Agam: Tableaux transformables, tableaux en mouvement, April-May 1958, no. 4.
Tel-Aviv Museum, Agam: Transformable Painting, Painting in Movement, December 1958-January 1959, no. 30.
London, Drian Gallery, Transformable Painting, April-May 1959, no. 11.
Providence, Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Herbert and Nannette Rothschild Collection, October-November 1966, no. 2.
| Art style: | Post War Art |
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| Place of origin: | Israel, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Art style: | Post War Art |
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| Place of origin: | Israel, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Address of auction |
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