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Lot 441 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
Mark di Suvero (b. 1933)
Unchained
Closed16 November 2016
Price Realised
USD 56,250
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“Most adults are deficient children; they don’t know how to play anymore. The pure response is the child’s response.” – Mark di Suvero
“What he recognized, like Calder before him, is that the pleasure we get from the moving portions of a sculpture is a primal one.” (R. Pincus, “State of Being: The Singular Sculptures of Mark di Suvero,” Mark di Suvero: Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Tasende Gallery, San Diego, 2011, p. 12).
“What he recognized, like Calder before him, is that the pleasure we get from the moving portions of a sculpture is a primal one.” (R. Pincus, “State of Being: The Singular Sculptures of Mark di Suvero,” Mark di Suvero: Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat., Tasende Gallery, San Diego, 2011, p. 12).