Live Auction 12153Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session
John Chamberlain (1927-2011)
Lot 215

John Chamberlain (1927-2011)

EXPEDIENTPHONEBOOTH

Closed11 May 2016

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USD 269,000

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John Chamberlain (1927-2011)
EXPEDIENTPHONEBOOTH
painted and chromium-plated stainless steel
10 1/2 x 15 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (26.7 x 38.7 x 26.7 cm.)
Executed in 2010.

Joan Sonnabend Collection, Boston, acquired directly from the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

"To follow the aesthetic truism that significant works of art must contain a paradox, the enduring achievement of John Chamberlain's sculpture may be said to lie in its capacity to encompass the most fundamental of paradoxes: reconciling the complexity of nature with the most culturally inflected materials." (T. Crow in John Chamberlain: New Sculpture, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2011, p. 4)