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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Evening Auction | 13 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | NUTCRACKER | ||
May 9, 2011 | Sotheby's | New York | The Collection of Allan Stone Vol. I, The Collection of Allan Stone Vol. II The Art of Wayne Thiebaud | 9 | $****** - ****** | Very Good | Nutcracker |
sculpture
115.6 x 110.5 x 81.3 cm (45.51 x 43.5 x 32.01 in)
painted and chromium-plated steel
The artist
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (acquired from the above in 1960)
Allan Stone, New York (acquired by exchange with the above in 1963)
Sotheby's, New York, May 9, 2011, Lot 9 (consigned by the above)
Acquired by the present owner from the above
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, New Forms - New Media I, June 1960
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, New Forms - New Media II, September - October 1960, n.p., illustrated (installed in Martha Jackson Gallery, 1960), no. 14, illustrated
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, Mallary, Chamberlain, Cesar, Anderson, October 1963
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sculpture by John Chamberlain, January 1967
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, John Chamberlain: A Retrospective Exhibition, December 1971 - February 1972, p. 25, no. 6, illustrated
New York, Allan Stone Gallery, John Chamberlain: Early Works, October - December 2003, pp. 2-3, illustrated (in installation at Allan Stone Gallery, New York, 1963), pp. 40-41, no. 20, illustrated in color, and illustrated in color on the cover (detail)
Chapel Hill, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, September 2008 - January 2009, p. 31, illustrated in color
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, John Chamberlain: Choices, February 2012 - September 2013, p. 196, illustrated (in installation at Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1960)
New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Chamberlain/De Kooning, November 2016 - January 2017, p. 47, illustrated in color, and p. 60, no. 10, illustrated in color
John D. Morse, "He Returns to Dada," Art in America, vol. 48, no. 3, October 1960, p. 76, illustrated
Emily Genauer, "Art and the Artist," New York Post, January 8, 1972, illustrated
Irving Sandler, The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties, New York, 1978, p. 155, no. 114, illustrated (detail)
Julie Sylvester, John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture 1954-1985, New York, 1986, p. 47, no. 21, illustrated
painted and chromium-plated steel
45 1/2 by 43 1/2 by 32 in. 115.6 by 110.5 by 81.3 cm.
Executed in 1958.
