Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)
Lot 650

Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)

Black Flower Series VI

Closed16 November 2017

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USD 112,500

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Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)
Black Flower Series VI
incised with the artist's signature 'NEVELSON' (lower edge)
painted aluminum
69 x 54 ½ x 26 in. (175.2 x 138.4 x 66 cm.)
Executed in 1973.

Pace Gallery, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Klein, Bloomfield Hills, 1973
Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham
Collection of Harriett and Irving Sands, Delray Beach, 1985
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 2012, lot 168
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

‘The nature of creation is that you have to go inside and dig out. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within’
(L. Nevelson, quoted in B.K. Rapaport, The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson: Constructing a Legend, exh. cat., The Jewish Museum, New York, 2007, p. 36).