LOT DETAILS

Materials:

box construction--Douglas fir, wood stain, plate-glass mirror, brass, ink and rubber bumpers

Measurements:

24.25 in. (61.60 cm.) (height) by 19.76 in. (50.20 cm.) (width) by 9.25 in. (23.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

titled 'ROSEBUD' (on a plate affixed to the lower edge); stamped with the artist's initials 'HCW' (on the inside proper left edge); stamped with the artist's signature, inscribed and dated 'H.C. WESTERMANN - CONN. '63' (on the upper side); stamped again with the artist's signature, inscribed and titled '1. TITLED: ROSEBUD. A SELF PORTRAIT. THIS IS A NICKNAME MY LITTLE WIFE GAVE ME. 2. MADE OF DOUGLAS FIR STAIR TREADS. AND QUARTER INCH PLATE GLASS MIRROR. 3. THE FINISH IS VALSPAR & PASTE MINWAX. MANY COATS. BUFF OCCASIONALLY. 4. THIS USE OF MIRRORS IS MY OWN INVENTION. 5. DEDICATE TO ELIE NADELMAN. H.C. WESTERMANN BROOKFIELD CENTER, CONN.' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, H.C. Westermann , November 1968-March 1969, p. 13, no. 21. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; Seattle Art Museum and San Francisco Museum of Art, H.C. Westermann , May 1978-May 1979, p. 50 (illustrated). Milwaukee Art Museum, Recent Glass Sculpture: A Union of Ideas , September-November 1997, p. 17, no. 48 (illustrated). 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: Exhibition Catalogue and Catalogue Raisonné of Objects , June 2001-January 2003, pp. 8, 191 and 259, no. MCA 85 (illustrated)

Literature:

D. Adrian, Unpublished transcript of gallery talk, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 18 May 1978, p. 6. R. Glowen, "H.C. Westermann Retrospective," Artweek , vol. 10, no. 7, 17 February 1979, p. 1. D. Adrian, "Introduction," H.C. Westermann , exh. cat., London, Serpentine Gallery, 1980, n.p. (illustrated)

Provenance:

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago Acquired from the above by the present owner