Live Auction 18977Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale
Ruth Asawa (1926-2013)
Lot 102

Ruth Asawa (1926-2013)

Untitled (S.753, Hanging Ten Interlocking Double Trumpets)

Closed7 October 2020

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USD 1,050,000

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Ruth Asawa (1926-2013)
Untitled (S.753, Hanging Ten Interlocking Double Trumpets)
hanging sculpture—brass and copper wire
23 x 24 x 14 ½ in. (58.4 x 61 x 36.8 cm.)
Executed circa early-1960s.

Asawa Family Collection, San Francisco
Private collection, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note


What I was excited by was I could make a shape that was inside and outside at the same time. . . You could create something… that just continuously reverses itself.
—Ruth Asawa