Live Auction 12157Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Sale
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)
Lot 264

Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)

Ancient Secrets III

Closed16 November 2016

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USD 72,500

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Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)
Ancient Secrets III
painted wood
33 ½ x 26 7/8 x 5 in. (85.1 x 68.3 x 12.7 cm.)
Executed in 1966-1967.

The Hirschland Collection, Little Neck, New York
Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1969

Specialist note

‘The nature of creation is that you have to go inside and dig out. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within’
(L. Nevelson, quoted in B.K. Rapaport, The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend, exh. cat., The Jewish Museum, New York, 2007, p. 36).