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BERNAR VENET (B. 1941) Indeterminate Line 52 1/2 x 58 x 36 in (133.4 x 147.3 x 91.4 cm) (Executed in 1987) image 1
BERNAR VENET (B. 1941) Indeterminate Line 52 1/2 x 58 x 36 in (133.4 x 147.3 x 91.4 cm) (Executed in 1987) image 2
BERNAR VENET (B. 1941) Indeterminate Line 52 1/2 x 58 x 36 in (133.4 x 147.3 x 91.4 cm) (Executed in 1987) image 3
BERNAR VENET (B. 1941) Indeterminate Line 52 1/2 x 58 x 36 in (133.4 x 147.3 x 91.4 cm) (Executed in 1987) image 4
Lot 119W

BERNAR VENET
(B. 1941)
Indeterminate Line 52 1/2 x 58 x 36 in (133.4 x 147.3 x 91.4 cm)

15 May 2025, 14:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$152,900 inc. premium

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BERNAR VENET (B. 1941)

Indeterminate Line
rolled steel
52 1/2 x 58 x 36 in (133.4 x 147.3 x 91.4 cm)
Executed in 1987

Footnotes

This work is recorded in the artist's archives under inventory number bv87s11. This work is eligible for a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Provenance
Wenger Gallery, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, November 1987. 

"The creative process is driven by curiosity, continual questioning, and a permanent desire to discover other unexplored areas. My entire body of work is made of pauses, new beginnings, experiments that draw on delving into the past. That is perhaps what allows me to continually broaden a gestation into an endless questioning. So much remains to be created. I am convinced that art as we once lived it and live it today is only a stage in knowing and sharpening our sensitivity. Let's accept that the parameters that define what art is nowadays will have nothing to do with those that will become the norm tomorrow. It is our chance, for it will be proof that art, as a field of knowledge, will always keep that precious possibility of being able to renew itself indefinitely."
-Bernar Venet
quoted in "Each Painting is a Kind of Equation", Art Territory, January 2025

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