LOT DETAILS

Materials:

painted metal elements on painted wooden box with wooden pulleys, rubber belt, metal fixtures and electric motor

Measurements:

24.41 in. (62.00 cm.) (height) by 19.69 in. (50.00 cm.) (width) by 3.15 in. (8.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 55 on the side

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Arnaud, Automates, Sculptures et Reliefs Méchaniques de Tinguely, 1954 Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Lumière et Mouvement, 1965, n.p., no. 139 Basel, Museum Tinguely, Le Mouvement. Vom Kino zur Kinetik, 2010, p. 71, illustrated in color

Literature:

Karl Gunnar Pontus Hultén, Ed., Jean Tinguely: ‘Méta’, London 1975, pp. 24-25, installation view Christina Bischofberger, Jean Tinguely: Catalogue Raisonné 1954-68, Zurich 1982, p. 23, no. 15, illustrated

Provenance:

Svensk-Franska Konstgalleriet, Stockholm Acquired directly from the above by the present owner in 1966