Live Auction 14997Post-War & Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Richard Tuttle (b. 1941)
Lot 885 Property from the Collection of Melva Bucksbaum

Richard Tuttle (b. 1941)

Audubon, Thoreau

Closed16 November 2017

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USD 200,000

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Richard Tuttle (b. 1941)
Audubon, Thoreau
numbered sequentially ''1'-'12'' (on the reverse of each element)
acrylic, nails and plywood mounted on plywood panel, in twelve parts
each: 14 x 14 in. (35.6 x 35.6 cm.)
Executed in 1999.

Sperone Westwater, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2003

Specialist note

“When people comes into that space with my show, I don't want them to think, "This is Richard Tuttle's art." I want them to think, "this is my art."  A lot of galleries are constructed so that the visitor has to come and look at somebody else's art. The more a viewer feels like the work is theirs, the happier I am.” (R. Tuttle quoted in “Walking on Air: A Conversation with Richard Tuttle” from Art in America, 10 April 2009).