LOT DETAILS

Materials:

bronze

Measurements:

76.77 in. (195.00 cm.) (height)

Edition:

unique

Markings:

Inscribed with the signature Isamu and with the date 1927 and stamped with the foundry mark Roman Bronze Works N.Y.

Exhibited:

New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, 1927. Long Island City, The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, The Full Figure and Portraiture, 1926-1941, 2008, illustrated.

Literature:

Sam Hunter & Isamu Noguchi, Isamu Noguchi, New York, n.d., illustration of the plaster p. 33. Nancy Grove & Diane Botnick, The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979, A Catalogue, New York & London, 1980, no. 23B, catalogued p. 4. Bruce Altschuler, Noguchi, New York, 1994, illustration of the artist with the plaster p. 13. Valerie J. Fletcher, Isamu Noguchi, Master Sculptor (exhibition catalogue), Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. & Whitney Museum of American Art, 2004, illustration of the artist with the plaster p. 20. Masayo Duus, The Life of Isamu Noguchi, Journey without Borders, Princeton, 2004, illustrated p. 106.

Provenance:

Fisher Estate Sale: Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia May 20, 2007, lot 103. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.