Lot 44
Druid’s Cluster (Swish)
Sold
£330,200
Est £350,000 - £450,000
Live Auction
20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE
ARTIST
John Chamberlain
Size
183 x 140 x 42.5 cm (72 x 55 1/8 x 16 3/4 in.)
Description

Medium
painted and chromium-plated steel
Signature
Executed in 1975.
Provenance
Heiner Friedrich, Cologne Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011
Literature
Noel Frackman, ‘John Chamberlain at Castelli Gallery’, Arts Magazine, vol. 50, no. 10, June 1976, p. 19 (illustrated) Cheryl Glickfield, ed., Chicago Review. Black Mountain and Since: Objectivist Writing in America, vol. 30, no. 3, Winter 1979 (illustrated, cover) Julie Sylvester, John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture 1954-1985, New York, 1986, no. 514, pp. 143, 237 (illustrated, p. 143) Susan Davidson, ed., John Chamberlain: Choices, New York, 2012, pp. 210, 212
Exhibited
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, John Chamberlain, 27 March – 17 April 1976 Cologne, Heiner Friedrich, John Chamberlain, June - August 1978 New York, Ayn Foundation, John Chamberlain: Sculpture 1976-1997, September 1997 - October 1999 New York, Kasmin Gallery, Levity/Density, 11 June – 16 August 2019 New York, Gagosian, John Chamberlain: Stance, Rhythm, and Tilt, 28 September - 11 December 2021