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JOEL SHAPIRO (B. 1941)
Lot 153

JOEL SHAPIRO (B. 1941)

Untitled

Closed1 October 2021

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USD 118,750

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JOEL SHAPIRO (B. 1941)
Untitled
incised with the artist's signature 'SHAPIRO' (on the underside)
bronze
32 5/8 x 47 x 46 ¼ in. (83 x 119.5 x 117.5 cm.)
Executed in 1986. This work is the artist's proof from an edition of three plus one artist's proof.

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 6 February 2003, lot 697
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

“[Shapiro's] new sculptures, carrying on like clowns, splayed out like the 'Dying Gaul' or a wounded Picasso horse, gesturing to the sky like Zadkine's 'Rotterdam,' demonstrate again why Shapiro is one of the finest artists of his generation. ...he has been able to mold the sculptural vocabulary of Minimalism into the kind of utterance that has always been a sign of a large sculptural achievement.”
—M. Brenson, “Joel Shapiro,” The New York Times, 14 November 1986.