Nine Rotors, Nine Cubes

Details

George Rickey (1907-2002)
Nine Rotors, Nine Cubes
stainless steel and cement
overall: 128 x 107 x 45 in. (325.1 x 271.7 x 114.3 cm.)
Executed in 1964-1966. This work is unique.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. List, Byram, Connecticut, acquired directly from the artist, 1966
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1991, lot 214
Private collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

Berkeley, University Art Museum, Directions in Kinetic Sculpture, March-July 1966, pp. 54 and 57, no. 31 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

"I found that I did not merely want to set a static art in motion, nor did I want to describe the dynamic world around me with a series of moving images. I wanted the whole range of movements themselves at my disposal, not to describe what I observed in the world around me, but to be themselves, performing in a world of their own."
George Rickey

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