LOT DETAILS

Materials:

welded copper wire on a rotating wooden base

Size Notes:

(including motor)

Edition:

unique

Markings:

signed with the initials 'A.P.' (at the lower edge)

Exhibited:

Venice, XXIX Biennale, June - October 1958. Saint-Etienne, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Cent sculpteurs de Daumier à nos jours, 1960. Basel, Austellung im Wenkenpark, Reihen, Skulpturim 20. Jahrhundert, May - September 1980, p. 72 (illustrated p. 73). Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Sammlungen Hans und Watler Bechtler, August - October 1982, p. 127 (illustrated).

Literature:

A. Pevsner, 'La science tue la poésie', in XXe Siècle, no. 12, May - June 1959, pp. 13-16 (illustrated). P. Peissi, Antoine Pevsner, Neuchâtel, 1961, no. 116, p. 151 (illustrated; incorrectly catalogued as 'bronze'). A. Lardera, Antoine Pevsner, sa vie, son oeuvre, Paris, 1992, fig. 79 (illustrated). E. Lebon & P. Brullé, Antoine Pevsner, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre sculpté, Paris, 2002, no. 70a, p. 198, (illustrated pp. 199-201).

Provenance:

Acquired directly from the artist by the family of the present owner in 1959.