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Lot 36W
CAREL VISSER(1928-2015)Dubbelvorm 1 (Double form 1)
1957
1957
12 May 2021, 13:00 EDT
New YorkSold for US$75,312.50 inc. premium
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CAREL VISSER (1928-2015)
Dubbelvorm 1 (Double form 1)
1957
welded oxidized iron
62 by 39 1/4 by 35 1/4 in.
157 by 99.7 by 88.9 cm.
This work was executed in 1957, and is 1 of 6 unique variants.
1957
welded oxidized iron
62 by 39 1/4 by 35 1/4 in.
157 by 99.7 by 88.9 cm.
This work was executed in 1957, and is 1 of 6 unique variants.
Footnotes
Provenance
The Collection of David E. Bright and Dolly Bright, Los Angeles (acquired directly from the artist in 1968)
Thence by descent to the present owner
Exhibited
Venice, The Venice Biennale, 1968, p. 11, illustrated
Brussels, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Carel Visser: Sculptures - Beelden, 1972, another example exhibited
The Hague, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Carel Visser Genesis, 2019, p. 93, another example exhibited
Literature
Cor Blok, Carel Visser: Art and Architecture in the Netherlands, Amsterdam 1968, p. 5, another example illustrated
Carel Visser, Beelden- Tekeningen-Grafiek, 1972, p. 39, another example illustrated
Dr Carel Blotkamp, Carel Visser, Antwerp 1988, p.92, another example illustrated
David E. Bright was a well-known Los Angeles based industrialist and art collector. By the mid-1960s, Mr. Bright had amassed a collection of over 150 objects that included primarily early twentieth-century European Modern Art and Post-War American Art. In 1967, Bright's wife, Dolly, donated twenty-three works from his collection to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which formed the core of the museum's Modern Art collection.
Prior to that remarkable donation, and in collaboration with the UCLA, Bright established the David E. Bright Foundation. Focused on charitable work with civic, cultural, and educational institutions in Los Angeles, the foundation also funded five awards for emerging artists at the Venice Biennale. In so doing, Bright became the first American sponsor of the Biennale.
Dutch minimalist sculptor Carel Visser was the recipient of the David E. Bright sculpture prize in the 1968 Venice Biennale, the same year his work was exhibited at Documenta 4 in Kassel, Germany. The present lot is one of Visser's early abstractions of bird forms. It is one of a series of six unique Dubbelvorm 1 sculptures made in 1957 and is considered one of the most important forms in Visser's oeuvre.
