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Jean Tinguely (1925-1991)
Lot 373 PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

Jean Tinguely (1925-1991)

Le monstre dans la forêt

Closed7 October 2017

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GBP 8,750

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Jean Tinguely (1925-1991)
Le monstre dans la forêt
signed and dated 'Tinguely 1969' (along the lower edge)
ballpoint pen, graphite, wax crayon, felt tip pen and colour pencil on paper
16 x 11 ¾in. (40.5 x 30cm.)
Executed in 1969

Bonlow Gallery, New York.
Acquired directly from the above by the previous owner.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

This work is a preparatory drawing for the Cyclop, built in Milly-la-Forêt, Fance by Jean Tinguely, his wife Niki de Saint-Phalle and their friends, including Daniel Spoerri and Jesoes-Rafael Soto. The sculpture was started in 1969 and completed in 1994, three years after Tinguely’s death.