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LOUISE NEVELSON
(1900 – 1988)
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Mirror Shadow XXXX
Wood painted black, 1987
60 x 60 x 19.5 inches
Provenance
Pace Gallery, NY
Private Collection, NY
NOTE:
For me, the color black symbolized harmony and continuity.
Louise Nevelson
My total conscious search in life has been for a new seeing, a new image, a
new insight. This search not only includes the object, but the in-between place.
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The dawns and the dusks. The objective world, the heavenly spheres, the places
between the land and sea…Whatever creation man invents, the image can be
found in nature. We cannot see anything that we are not already aware of. The
inner, the other one.”
- Louise Nevelson, Nature in Abstraction, 1957
Nature as a whole, with all its grandeur and baffling contradictions, became part
of the very being of Louise Nevelson. Impressions of it filled a well of visual structures
from which she could always refresh herself. One can not overestimate the force her
years in Maine and Central America had upon her.
Mirror Shadow XXXX is pure poetry. The pleasurable feeling of being closed in
one’s own rich and private world, is the vicarious experience Louise Nevelson offers to
share with us. The almost magical beauty of this work is achieved not with precious
materials or rare media, but with man-altered wood and simple black paint.
Louise Nevelson's work can be found internationally in over eighty public museum,
university, corporate, and municipal collections including: The Art Institute of Chicago; The Art
Museum, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ); The Brooklyn Museum; The Corcoran Gallery
of Art (Washington, DC); the William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum (Rockland, ME);
the Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino (Turin, Italy); the Hara Museum
of Contemporary Art (Tokyo, Japan); the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
(Washington, DC); the Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel); the Julliard School of Music at
Lincoln Center (New York, NY); the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk, Denmark); The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York,
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NY); The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada); the Musée nNational d'art
Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, France); The Museum of Modern Art (New York,
NY); the City of New York; the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller (Otterlo, Netherlands); the Scottish
National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh, Scotland); the City of Scottsdale, Arizona; the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York, NY); the Storm King Art Center and Sculpture
Park (Mountainville. NY); the Tate Gallery (London, England); the Walker Art Center
(Minneapolis, MN); and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY).
Prices from recent auction sales include a closely related work: Mirror shadow XXXVII.
Mirror Shadow XXXX is priced very conservatively.
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Full details
Louise Nevelson
Title
Dark presence III
Description
Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)Dark Presence
IIIwood painted black137½ x More ...
Medium
painted wood
Year of Work
1971
Size
Height 137.5 in.; Width 100 in.; Depth 10 in. /
Height 349.2 cm.; Width 254 cm.; Depth 25.4
cm.
Sale of
Christie's New York: Wednesday, May 14, 2008
[Lot 00126]
Post -War And Contemporary Art Morning
Session
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Sold For
634,600 USD PREMIUM Currency Converter
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Louise Nevelson
Title
Mirror shadow XXXVII
Description
wood, More ...
Medium
wood, painted black
Year of Work
1981-1982
Size
Height 42 in.; Width 71 in.; Depth 14 in. / Height
106.7 cm.; Width 180.3 cm.; Depth 35.6 cm.
Sale of
Sotheby's New York: Thursday, May 15, 2008
[Lot 00172]
Contemporary Art Day Auction
Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
Sold For
623,400 USD PREMIUM Currency Converter
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Louise Nevelson
Title
Dawn's presence two (in 6 parts)
Medium
painted wood
Year of Work
1969-1975
Size
Height 97.5 in.; Width 78 in.; Depth 57 in. /
Height 247.6 cm.; Width 198.1 cm.; Depth 144.8
cm.
Sale of
Christie's New York: Monday, September 10,
2007 [Lot 00265]
First Open Post- War and Contemporary Art
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
Sold For
553,000 USD PREMIUM Currency Converter
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Louise Nevelson
Title
Dawn's wedding feast, column VI
Medium
wood, painted
Year of Work
1959
Size
Height 96 in.; Width 13 in.; Depth 13 in. / Height
243.8 cm.; Width 33 cm.; Depth 33 cm.
Sale of
Sotheby's New York: Thursday, November 15,
2007 [Lot 00124]
Contemporary Art Day
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
Sold For
529,000 USD PREMIUM Currency Converter
Full details
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Louise Nevelson
Title
Black light: Zag IV
Medium
painted wood and formica
Year of Work
1971
Size
Height 41 in.; Width 51 in.; Depth 7.2 in. /
Height 104.1 cm.; Width 129.5 cm.; Depth 18.3
cm.
Sale of
Sotheby's New York: Thursday, November 15,
2007 [Lot 00120]
Contemporary Art Day
Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 USD
Sold For
361,000 USD PREMIUM Currency Converter
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