Tonk #19-83

Details

JOHN CHAMBERLAIN (1927-2011)
Tonk #19-83
signed 'Chamberlain' (center edge)
painted steel
8 x 8 x 5 1/4 in. (20.3 x 20.3 x 13.3 cm.)
Executed in 1983.

Provenance

Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Allan Stone Projects, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2015

Literature

J. Sylvester, John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture 1954-1985, New York, 1986, p. 206, no. 752 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Galerie Helen van der Meij, John Chamberlain: Tonks, April-May 1984.

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Lot Essay

"There is material to be seen around you every day. But one day something - some one thing - pops out at you, and you pick it up, and you take it over, and you put it somewhere else, and it fits, it's just the right thing at the right moment I guess that's part of my definition of art."
– John Chamberlain

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