Details

Provenance

Allan Stone Gallery, New York

Exhibited

at Sotheby’s. Purchased items will be available for collection at Crozier Fine Arts, 1 Star Ledger Plaza, Newark, NJ as of Thursday, December 13th.

Catalog summary

JOHN CHAMBERLAIN 1927 - 2011 UNTITLED graphite on paper Sheet: 6 by 6½ in. (15.2 by 16.5 cm) Framed: 13¾ by 13¾ in. (34.9 by 34.9 cm) Executed circa 1958. Please note that this work will be exhibited at Sotheby’s. Purchased items will be available for collection at Crozier Fine Arts, 1 Star Ledger Plaza, Newark, NJ as of Thursday, December 13th. Provenance Allan Stone Gallery, New York Exhibited New York, Allan Stone Gallery, John Chamberlain: Early Works, October 2003 - January 2004, cat. no. 5, illustrated New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Alfred Leslie, John Chamberlain: Collage, November 2010 - January 2011 New York, Allan Stone Projects, Abstract Expressionist Works on Paper , January -March 2014 New York, Allan Stone Projects, Chamberlain, de Kooning & Others, January - March 2015 New York, Allan Stone Projects, Artists of the New York School , October - December 2016 Catalogue note Championed as the sculptural manifestation of Abstract Expressionism, John Chamberlain's famed assemblages of scrapped car bodies channelled the exuberance of Post-War painting and mixed it with the reflexivity of Pop Art. Chamberlain's works on paper from the late 1950s reflect the same preoccupation with shredded, torqued, and crushed forms that seem to alight or teeter in space with almost biomorphic contraposto. Chamberlain was a mainstay of the Allan Stone Gallery program for decades, with numerous significant works having passed through the Allan Stone Collection, including the auction record work Nutcracker , 1958. The recipient of numerous awards, Chamberlain was honored with two Guggenheim Fellowships in 1966 and 1977, the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center in Washington DC, both in 1993; The National Arts Club Award in New York in 1997; and the Guild Hall Academy of the Fine Arts, Visual Arts Honoree for the 22nd Annual Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Chamberlain has had countless gallery and museum exhibitions, including shows at Leo Castelli Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, the 1964 Venice Biennale, and retrospectives at the Museum of Contemporary Art: Los Angeles in 1986, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1971 and 2012. Chamberlain is in numerous public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Menil Collection, Houston, the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, DIA Beacon, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.