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| 4,000.00 | 03/03/2019 6:46 AM | |
133 : Reuben Nakian (b. LI, NY, 1897 - D. Stamford, Ct 1986) Sculpure Voyage To Crete - Purchase Price $20,000
Winning Bid $3,500.00
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Item #: 100686
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Item Description
Reuben Nakian enjoyed a long and distinguished career, maintaining his innovative spirit and creativity over more than seventy years, constantly rethinking and revising his modes of sculptural expression and exploring and mastering new media: marble, clay, plaster, metal, paper, and, in his last years, styrofoam.
Nakian’s work is represented in the permanent collections and sculpture gardens of many of America’s most prestigious museum and institutions. He has been honored with major one-man exhibits at the Los Angeles County Museum (1962), the New York Museum of Modern Art (1966), the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC (1981), the Milwaukee Art Museum (1985), the Gulbenkian Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal (1988), and a Centennial Retrospective at the Reading (PA) Public Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC (1999), the site of Nakian’s first one-man museum exhibition in 1935. “Garden of the Gods I” was one of five sculptures to inaugurate the Metropolitan Museum of Art Roof Garden, while other of his monumental works preside over civic and private settings across America.
He died on December 4, 1986 in Stamford, Connecticut at the age of eighty-nine, “one of the most distinguished American sculptors of the 20th Century” (New York Times obituary, 12/5/86).
This bronze outdoor sculpture with a wonderful verdigris patina began in 1960 and completed in 1962. The work is estimated at a value of $7,000 to $10,000. It was purchased from Reuben's son in 1985 at a cost of $20,000 and a copy of a letter with the details of the piece is shown.
The piece represents the abduction of Europa by the Greek God Zeus, metamorphosed in the form of a bull.
Dimensions: approximate 37" L, 26" D and 38" H
Condition: good, consistent with age and weathering.
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