LOT DETAILS

Materials:

carved wood assemblage

Measurements:

15.98 in. (40.60 cm.) (height) by 6.97 in. (17.70 cm.) (width) by 6.97 in. (17.70 cm.) (width)

Edition:

unique

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 'I'd like to live here! Westermann '55' (on the underside)

Exhibited:

Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art and Los Angeles County Museum, H.C. Westermann, January 1968-January 1969, pg. 15, no. 1 (illustrated). New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; Seattle Art Museum, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, H.C. Westermann, May 1978-May 1979, p. 16 (illustrated). Akron Art Museum, H.C. Westermann, January-March 1982. Serpentine Gallery, London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Westermann at the Serpentine, November 1980-February 1981, no. 1 (illustrated). Philadelphia Art Alliance, Forms in Wood, April-May 1985. Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, and Houston, Menil Collection, H.C. Westermann, June 2001-January 2003, p. 190, no. 2.

Literature:

M. Rooks and L. Warren, H.C. Westermann: Exhibition Catalogue and Catlogue Raisonné of Objects, New York, 2001, p. 82, no. 3 (illustrated in color) and p. 217 (illustrated).

Provenance:

414 Art Workshop Gallery, Chicago. Allan Frumpkin Gallery, Chicago. Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1957.