LOT DETAILS

Materials:

glazed and painted ceramic, artist's painted wood pedestal

Size Notes:

Pedestal: (151.4 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm)

Exhibited:

Los Angeles, Ferus Gallery, An Exhibition of Sculpture by Kenneth Price, from March 3, 1964; Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, The Betty and Monte Factor Family Collection, April 24-June 3, 1973; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties, July 21-October 4, 1981, then traveled to San Antonio Museum of Art (November 20-January 31, 1982); Los Angeles, Olympic Arts Festival, Art in Clay: 1950's to 1980's in Southern California: Evolution, Revolution, Continuation, June 1-July 12, 1984, then traveled to Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (July 24-August 26, 1984); Paris, Le Centre Pompidou, Los Angeles 1955-1985 Birth Of An Art Capital, March 8-July 17, 2006; New York, Nyehaus and Franklin Parrasch Gallery, Ken Price: Sculpture and Drawings, February 25-March 27, 2010; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, September 16, 2012-January 6, 2013, then traveled to Texas, Nasher Sculpture Center (February 9-May 12, 2013), New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (June 18-September 22, 2013)

Literature:

Maurice Tuchman, ed., Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981, illustrated p. 50, cat. no. 98, p. 94, cat. no. 98; Betty Warner Sheinbaum, Art in Clay: 1950's to 1980's in Southern California : Evolution, Revolution, Continuation, exh. cat., Olympic Arts Festival, Los Angeles, 1984, illustrated p. 51, cat. no. 129; Catherine Grenier, ed., Los Angeles 1955-1985 Birth Of An Art Capital, exh. cat., Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2006, illustrated p. 135, cat. no. 12; The Cool School: The Story of the Ferus Gallery - How LA Learned To Love Modern Art, DVD, Directed by Morgan Neville, Tremolo Productions, 2008; Kristen McKenna, The Ferus Gallery - A Place To Begin, 2009, illustrated p. 279; Ed Hardy: Tattoo The World, 2010, DVD, Directed by Emiko Omori, New Video Group, Inc., 2010; Mary Davis MacNaughton, ed., Clay's Tectonic Shift, 1956-1968: John Mason, Ken Price, Peter Voulkos, exh. cat., Ruth Chandler Williams Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, 2012, illustrated p. 118, cat. no. 37; Stephanie Barron, Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012, illustrated pp. 137, 221

Provenance:

Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles; Betty and Monte Factor, Beverly Hills, acquired from the above, 1964; Acquired by the present owner from the above through Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, 2004