Live Auction 18549Post-War to Present
George Rickey (1907-2002)
Lot 70

George Rickey (1907-2002)

Nine Rotors, Nine Cubes

Closed5 March 2020

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USD 106,250

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George Rickey (1907-2002)
Nine Rotors, Nine Cubes
stainless steel and cement
overall: 128 x 107 x 45 in. (325.1 x 271.7 x 114.3 cm.)
Executed in 1964-1966. This work is unique.

Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. List, Byram, Connecticut, acquired directly from the artist, 1966
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1991, lot 214
Private collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note


"I found that I did not merely want to set a static art in motion, nor did I want to describe the dynamic world around me with a series of moving images. I wanted the whole range of movements themselves at my disposal, not to describe what I observed in the world around me, but to be themselves, performing in a world of their own."
George Rickey