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Walter de Maria

Albany, New York 1935 – 2013 Los Angeles

”Loaves of bed” / ”There in a Bed - Better rest your head” / ”Pun Machine” / ”Smoke” (from the series: ”Invisible Drawings”). 1961

4 drawings: each pencil on paper. Each 12,8 × 28 cm (5 × 11 in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Walter de Maria. ”Loaves of bed” / ”There in a Bed - Better rest your head” / ”Pun Machine” / ”Smoke” (from the series: ”Invisible Drawings”). 1961.

Estimate:

EUR 6,000

 

- 8,000

USD 6,740

 

- 8,990

Sold for:

9,525 EUR (incl. premium)

Summer Auctions 2025

Contemporary Art, Friday, 06.06.2025

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4 drawings: each pencil on paper. Each 12,8 × 28 cm (5 × 11 in.). Each signed and dated with black ink on the reverse: Walter de Maria 1961. Here each inscribed and titled: Drawing from earliest invisible drawing series "Loaves of bed" resp. "There in a Bed - Better rest your head" resp. "Pun Machine" resp. "Smoke". Framed

Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Cologne and Munich / Collection Jost and Barbara Herbig, Icking / Estate Timotheus Pohl, New York

Auction: Works from the Herbig Collection. New York, Christie's, 12.2.1998, cat.-nr. 50

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