Live Auction 1135Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Carl Andre (B. 1935)
Lot 271

Carl Andre (B. 1935)

All 3 Blocks

Closed26 June 2013

Price Realised

GBP 22,500

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Carl Andre (B. 1935)
All 3 Blocks
aluminium, in three parts
each: 2 x 7 5⁄8 x 4in. (5.1 x 19.5 x 10.2cm.)
overall: 2 x 22 7⁄8 x 4in. (5.1 x 58.2 x 10.2cm.)
Executed in 2008 (3)

Rule Gallery, Denver.
Private Collection, Belgium.

Specialist note

Andre is, first and foremost, consciously extending the traditions of modernist sculpture. Though decision-making plays an unusually large role in all of Andre's work, he always gives equal importance to its materiality. 'My works are not the embodiments of ideas or conceptions', Andre once said. 'My works are, in the words of William Blake, 'The lineaments of Gratified Desire'
('A redefinition of sculpture', D. Bourdon, Carl Andre, Sculpture 1959-1977, New York, 1978).