Live Auction 2465First Open Post-War & Contemporary Art
Liza Lou (b. 1969)
Lot 20

Liza Lou (b. 1969)

Chicken Noodle Soup Can

Closed21 September 2011

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USD 4,000

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Liza Lou (b. 1969)
Chicken Noodle Soup Can
signed and numbered 'Liza Lou 9/250' (on the side)
glass beads on plaster
4 x 2¾ x 2¾ in. (10.1 x 6.9 x 6.9 cm.)
Executed circa 1990. This work is number nine from an edition of two hundred and fifty.

Acquired from the artist
By descent to the present owner

Specialist note

This Chicken Noodle Soup Can edition was created while Liza Lou was at work on her 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. The soup can was in fact the first subject Lou approached with this method, which is today central to her creative process and oeuvre.