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Louise NevelsonBlack Cryptic XVI1984
1984
$40,000
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A sculpture by Louise Nevelson. "Black Cryptic XVI" is a small-scale, geometric sculpture, painted wood and hardwood in black by Post-War American artist Louise Nevelson.
Louise Nevelson was an early conceptual artist who worked in a variety of media before engrossing herself with wood sculpture. Her sculptures are made of intricately cut and built wood pieces that create puzzle-like compositions. Often, these sculptures were painted black to incorporate every color – for Nevelson, black was not the absence of color, but the totality of it. Later in her career, she began to incorporate white and gold into her repetoire, however the sculptures remained monochromatic.
Nevelson was a prolific artist, who was accorded the highest critical acclaim yet achieved by an American woman artist. Her artwork is held in a number of exceptional private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Cleveland Art Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Provenance:
Pace Gallery, New York
Anon. sale; Christie's East, New York, 14 November 1995, lot 228
Private Collection, California
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- Creation Year1984
- DimensionsHeight: 5 in. (12.7 cm)Width: 4.75 in. (12.07 cm)Depth: 2 in. (5.08 cm)
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- Gallery LocationPalm Desert, CA
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