Lot 119
TAOIST TOAST
Sold
$444,500
Est $400,000 - $600,000
Live Auction
20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART DAY SALE, MORNING SESSION
ARTIST
John Chamberlain
Size
73 x 83 x 80 in. (185.4 x 210.8 x 203.2 cm)
Description
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTION

Medium
painted steel
Signature
Executed in 1994.
Provenance
The Pace Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2005
Literature
John Chamberlain: Current Work and Fond Memories, Sculptures and Photographs 1967-1995, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Amsterdam, 1996, p. 115 (The Pace Gallery, New York, 1994 installation view illustrated) Udo Brandhorst, Food for the Mind, exh. cat., Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst Munchen, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2000, p. 100 Lynne Cooke and Michael Govan, Dia: Beacon, New York, 2003, fn. 4, p. 111 Susan Davison, ed., John Chamberlain: Choices, New York, 2012, p. 221
Exhibited
New York, The Pace Gallery, John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture, September 17—October 15, 1994, pp. 34-35, 45 (illustrated, p. 35)