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What did Louise Nevelson use to make her sculptures?
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Louise Nevelson used found wooden forms and made sculptures in steel, aluminum, plexiglass and other materials. Her artistic journey often featured wood, as she found it fascinating, but she added plastics and formica in the 1960s. In the 1970s she began to work on a gigantic scale with aluminum and steel. Shop a selection of Louise Nevelson pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
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"Reclining Figure" Louise Nevelson, Modernist, Human Form, Abstracted Body
By Louise Nevelson
Located in New York, NY
Louise Nevelson
Reclining Figure, circa 1943
Tattistone
8 inches high x 21 inches wide x 9 inches deep
With base 10 inches high x 21 3/4 inches wide x 9 1/2 inches deep
Provenance
T...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
"Abstract Figure with Face" Louise Nevelson, American Female, Anthropomorphic
By Louise Nevelson
Located in New York, NY
Louise Nevelson
Abstract Figure with Face, circa 1945
Incised "LN" on the reverse
Tattistone
6 inches high x 14 inches wide x 5 1/4 inches deep
Provenance
The artist
The artist's ni...
Category
1940s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Untitled, Collage abstract expressionistic wooden collage, monochrome black
By Louise Nevelson
Located in Zug, CH
Nevelson’s compositions explore the relational possibilities of sculpture and space, summing up the objectification of the external world into a personal landscape. Although her prac...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media
Materials
Wood
SKY CASE XII
By Louise Nevelson
Located in New York, NY
wooden sculpture of found objects painted black. case with lid and hinges.
Category
1970s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Price Upon Request