Merryn Schriever
Managing Director, Australia
Lot 11
Robert Klippel(1920-2001)Opus 172, Metal Construction, 1963 height: 38.0 (15/16in).
14 November 2018, 18:00 AEDT
Sydney, WoollahraAU$10,000 - AU$15,000
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Robert Klippel (1920-2001)
Opus 172, Metal Construction, 1963
brazed and welded steel, found objects
height: 38.0 (15/16in).
brazed and welded steel, found objects
height: 38.0 (15/16in).
Footnotes
PROVENANCE
Harry Boyd collection
Private collection, Sydney
EXHIBITED
Robert Klippel: Sculpture, Clune Gallery, Sydney, 17-28 September 1963
Robert Klippel, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, 3-17 December 1963
Gallery A, Melbourne, 29 October 1964
LITERATURE
James Gleeson, Robert Klippel, Bay Books, Sydney, 1983, p. 240, pl. 151, p. 246 (illus.), p. 470
Deborah Edwards, Robert Klippel: Catalogue Raisonné of Sculptures, (CD-ROM) Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2002, no. 172 (illus.)
James Gleeson noted that Klippel's '...final year in New York saw a return of the creative energy and physical drive that he had not been able to summon up for his sculpture since those two years of intensive effort in London in 1947-48. In the light of subsequent developments, the breakthrough of 1963 was not so much climax as a beginning which did not culminate until 1968, yet in another sense it was a climax because it saw the resolution of so many uncertainties and left him, at the end, firmly set upon a course about which he had no doubts at all.
Thirty works were produced in this burst of activity, and more than half of them were of the new kind and of the highest quality. His obsession with reliefs was fading but it did not stop abruptly...works with relief-like characteristics continued in...Opus 169-172....' 1
1. Gleeson 1983, op. cit., p. 240
