Live Auction 14997Post-War & Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Carl Andre (b. 1935)
Lot 849 Property from the Collection of Melva Bucksbaum

Carl Andre (b. 1935)

13 Venifer

Closed16 November 2017

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USD 175,000

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Carl Andre (b. 1935)
13 Venifer
hot-rolled steel plates, in thirteen parts
each: 6 x 10 in. (15.2 x 25.4 cm.)
overall: 26 x 30 in. (66 x 76.2 cm.)
Executed in 1983. This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000

Specialist note

"My life has been a search for my true limits. Such limits define an artist. I realised that my vocation was to use my materials as cuts into space rather than cutting into the space of my materials." (C. Andre, quoted in E. Meyer-Hermann (ed.), Carl Andre: Sculptor 1996, exh. cat. Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters, Krefeld 1996, p. 54).