LEE BONTECOU (B. 1931)
LEE BONTECOU (B. 1931)
1 More
LEE BONTECOU (1931-2022)

Untitled

Details
LEE BONTECOU (1931-2022)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Bontecou 1984' (lower right)
casein and graphite on primed plastic paper
15 x 12 in. (38.1 x 30.5 cm.)
Executed in 1984.
Provenance
Hauser & Wirth
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2013
Exhibited
Los Angeles, Hammer Museum; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, October 2003-September 2004, p. 119, pl. 121 (illustrated).
Zürich, Hauser & Wirth, Lee Bontecou Works on Paper, June-July 2013.

Brought to you by

Rachael White Young
Rachael White Young Vice President, Senior Specialist, Head of Core Market Sales

Lot Essay

“Like her sculptures, Bontecou’s drawings of fish and flowers from this period exude a certain synthetic quality…The flowers are composed from round disks, petals, that circle a central sphere…In direct correspondence to the sculptures of the time, the drawings bear representations of bolts and fasteners at the base of the stems and in the petals, as if the flowers are pieced together, artificially constructed” (M. White, “Lee Bontecou’s Drawn Worlds,” Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds, Houston, 2014, p. 18).

More from Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale

View All
View All