Blanket Appliance

Details

John Chamberlain (1927-2011)
Blanket Appliance
painted, chromium plated and stainless steel
8 ¼ x 9 x 5 ½ in. (21 x 22.9 x 14 cm.)
Executed in 1992.

Provenance

The Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992

Literature

R. Smith, "Long Island Shows: Small, Closely Focused and Old," The New York Times, 12 August 1992, p. C22.

Exhibited

Bridgehampton, Dia Center for the Arts, John Chamberlain: Sculpture, August-September 1992.
New York, The Pace Gallery, John Chamberlain: Recent Work, October-November 1992, no. 11 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

"Duplicating the power and compression of Mr. Chamberlain's full-size pieces, they nonetheless have a delicacy and intimacy his big work necessarily lacks. Pieces like Blanket Appliance, in which one tiny expanse of white metal dotted with tiny red and green drips makes a whispered aside to Pollock, might also be seen as the late-20th-century answer to Faberge's eggs."
—R. Smith, "Long Island Shows: Small, Closely Focused and Old," The New York Times, 12 August 1992, p. C22.

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