Le monstre dans la forêt

Details

Jean Tinguely (1925-1991)
Le monstre dans la forêt
signed and dated 'Tinguely 1969' (along the lower edge)
ballpoint pen, graphite, wax crayon, felt tip pen and colour pencil on paper
16 x 11 ¾in. (40.5 x 30cm.)
Executed in 1969

Provenance

Bonlow Gallery, New York.
Acquired directly from the above by the previous owner.
Thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Geneva, Cabinet des estampes, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Jean Tinguely, Dessins et gravures pour les sculptures, 1976, no. 167 (illustrated, p. 69).

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Lot Essay

This work is a preparatory drawing for the Cyclop, built in Milly-la-Forêt, Fance by Jean Tinguely, his wife Niki de Saint-Phalle and their friends, including Daniel Spoerri and Jesoes-Rafael Soto. The sculpture was started in 1969 and completed in 1994, three years after Tinguely’s death.

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