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Mary Bauermeister

Frankfurt am Main 1934 – 2023 Bergisch Gladbach

„Needless Needles Sliding Box“. 1964/71-72/91

Box of lenses with sliding top pane. Wooden box, optical lenses, wooden balls, glass, ink. 22,2 × 35,5 × 12,5 cm (8 ¾ × 14 × 4 ⅞ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Mary Bauermeister. „Needless Needles Sliding Box“. 1964/71-72/91.

Estimate:

EUR 8,000

 

- 10,000

USD 9,100

 

- 11,400

Sold for:

18,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2016

Contemporary Art, Friday, 03.06.2016

Information

Box of lenses with sliding top pane. Wooden box, optical lenses, wooden balls, glass, ink. 22,2 × 35,5 × 12,5 cm (8 ¾ × 14 × 4 ⅞ in.). On the reverse: drawing. Enclosure: exhibition catalogue. Mary Bauermeister. The New York Decade. Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, 2015. With drawing on the first page. Framed

The work was created in multiple phases: The subject relates to the 1964 drawing, "needless needles," today in the collection of MoMA, New York; in 1971-72 the balls were added and the box was built; in 1991 the top sliding pane was installed; repairs were made by the artist in 2016.

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