Beverly Pepper
Andhra Column , 1979 (Executed)
Lot #114 |
2021-12-17 |
Sotheby's, New York
Contemporary Art | New York
Category:
Painting
Estimate:
USD 10,000 - 15,000 (currency of sale)
Price Sold:
Auction Details
Auction house: Sotheby's
Auction number: N10814
Auction name: Contemporary Art | New York
Auction type: Fine Art
Location: New York
Start date: 2021-12-17
Currency: USD
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Lot Description
Details
Genre: Contemporary Art
Department: Painting & Works on Paper
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Dimensions: 34⅛ by 6¼ by 3½ in.
Item measurements:
Height In Centimeters:
86.7
Width In Centimeters:
15.8
Depth In Centimeters:
8.8
Height In Inches:
34.125
Width In Inches:
6.25
Depth In Inches:
3.5
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Year notes: Executed in 1979.
Provenance
Private Collection, New York Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above) Bonhams New York, 1 July 2020, Lot 4 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Catalogue note "My work both responds to and tries to reinforce the human capacity for wonder... Obviously we can’t rebuild the monuments of the ancient world, but we can aspire to re-evoke, in however modern a world, some of the enduring and perhaps renewable sensations of amazement, even awe." -- Beverly Pepper (quoted in Beverly Pepper, Curvae in Curvae (exhibition catalogue), Marlborough Fine Art, London, 2014)
Catalog summary
Beverly Pepper 1922 - 2020 Andhra Column cast iron 34⅛ by 6¼ by 3½ in. 86.7 by 15.8 by 8.8 cm. Executed in 1979. Provenance Private Collection, New York Private Collection (acquired by descent from the above) Bonhams New York, 1 July 2020, Lot 4 Acquired at the above sale by the present owner Catalogue note "My work both responds to and tries to reinforce the human capacity for wonder... Obviously we can’t rebuild the monuments of the ancient world, but we can aspire to re-evoke, in however modern a world, some of the enduring and perhaps renewable sensations of amazement, even awe." -- Beverly Pepper (quoted in Beverly Pepper, Curvae in Curvae (exhibition catalogue), Marlborough Fine Art, London, 2014)