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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 15, 2025 | Sotheby's | New York | The Now and Contemporary Evening Auction | 125 | $****** - ****** | Butternut |
sculpture
104.1 x 66 x 101.6 cm (41 x 26 x 40 in)
painted and chromium-plated steel
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
Philippe Dotrement, Brussels
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York
Acquired from the above in October 1972 by the present owner
Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Pop Art Américain, May 1963
Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Premier Salon International de Galeries-pilotes, Lausanne: Artistes et découvreuers de notre temps , June - September 1963, no. N2, p. 219, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, John Chamberlain , April - May 1964, p. 10, illustrated
Cologne, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Bilder von Allan D"Arcangelo und Plastiken von John Chamberlain, March 1965, p. 5, illustrated
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Summer Group Exhibition , June - September 1972
Alexandria, Alexandria Chapter of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Recent Acquisitions from the Frances and Sidney Lewis Contemporary Art Fund , January - February 1973
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Contemporary Art Acquisitions from Sidney and Frances Lewis, January - March 1979
Virginia, Danville Museum of Art and History and Courtland, Walter Cecil Rawls Museum and Library, Art of the Seventies, February - October 1982
Charlottesville, University of Virginia, Bayly Art Museum and Martinsville, Piedmont Fine Arts Collection, Contemporary Sculpture from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Collection, March 1992 - May 1993
Scottsdale Center for the Arts; New York, The Equitable Gallery; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; Medford, Tufts University Art Gallery; and Miami, Florida International University Art Museum, Neo-Dada: Redefining Art, 1958-62, November 1994 - March 1996, no. 9, p. 20 (text) and p. 22, illustrated in color
André Kuenzi, "1er Salon International de Galeries-pilotes," Art International , Vol. VII, Iss. 6, 25 June 1963, p. 26, illustrated
Kurt Leonhard, "Stuttgart Art Letter," Das Kunstwerk , No. XVII, August-September 1963, p. 70, illustrated
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Mirior et Mémoire du Premier Salon International de Galeries Pilotes, 1964, pp. 36, 59, illustrated (installed in Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 1963)
Rebecca Massie, The Lewis Contemporary Art Fund Collection, Richmond 1980, no. 72.49, p. 22, illustrated
Julie Sylvester, John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture, 1954-1985 , New York 1986, no. 152, p. 74, illustrated
Susan Hapgood and Jennifer Rittner, "Neo-Dada: Redefining Art, 1958-1962," Performing Arts Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1, January 1995, p. 69 (text) (incorrectly dated 1962)
Exh. Cat., New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, (and traveling), John Chamberlain: Choices, 2012-13, pp. 198-99 (text)
Property of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions
John Chamberlain
1927 - 2011
Butternut
painted and chromium-plated steel
41 by 26 by 40 in.
104.1 by 66 by 101.6 cm.
Executed in 1963.
