Live Auction 20267Post-War to Present
LEE BONTECOU (B. 1931)
Lot 106

LEE BONTECOU (B. 1931)

Untitled

Closed10 March 2022

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USD 718,200

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LEE BONTECOU (B. 1931)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Lee Bontecou 1958' (on the reverse)
soot on paper
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm.)
Executed in 1958.

The artist
Alexandre Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Specialist note

"You can travel miles within a drawing and not have to take all the baggage along. I always envied poets because of that fact.... I can't stress drawing enough.... You can work from your inner world rather than always the external world."
—Lee Bontecou