Live Auction 2465First Open Post-War & Contemporary Art
Liza Lou (b. 1969)
Lot 19 Property from the Collection of Renate and Sidney Shapiro

Liza Lou (b. 1969)

Buttered Toast

Closed21 September 2011

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USD 15,000

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Liza Lou (b. 1969)
Buttered Toast
signed 'LIZA LOU' (on one piece of toast)
seven elements--glass beads on plaster and plastic
plate: 1 1/8 x 9 in. (2.8 x 22.8 cm.)
toast: ¾ x 5 x 4¼ in. (1.9 x 12.7 x 10.7 cm.)
knife: 3/8 x 7 x 1 in. (.9 x 17.7 x 2.5 cm.)
butter: ¼ x 3½ x 3 in. (.6 x 8.8 x 7.6 cm.)
Executed circa 1990.

Acquired directly from the artist

Specialist note

Buttered Toast was initially created as part of Liza Lou's seminal piece The Kitchen, 1991-1995, now part of the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Her first large scale installation, it is a complete recreation of a kitchen rendered entirely in small glass beads.