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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 12, 2015 | Bonhams | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Art | 16 | $****** - ****** | Dark Star |
sculpture
76.2 x 52.1 x 25 cm (30 x 20.51 x 9.84 in)
painted wood
incised 'NEVELSON' (lower right)
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.,
Private Collection, Florida. ,Scott White Contemporary, San Diego. ,
Acquired from the above by the present owner
In the early 1950s, Nevelson "fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn't a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all. ... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing."<sup>1</sup> She began producing a series of monochromatic black wooden sculptures using the objects she found in New York. The wood-based assemblages are mixtures of abandoned parts of wholes: carved furniture legs, moldings, spindles, pegs, rolling pins, and scraps of wood. By unifying the divergent elements with black paint she created fully incorporated compositions whilst obscuring many individual parts. These works in their subliminal simplicity questioned the purpose of sculpture and roused an almost spiritual response in their hulking weight. In 1958, Nevelson her monumental Sky Cathedral which the famously contrarian critic Hilton Kramer called "remarkable and unforgettable."<sup>2</sup> Between 1956 and 1958 Nevelson's work was acquired by MoMA, the Whitney, and the Brooklyn Museum
