Standing Figure II

Details

Magdalena Abakanowicz (b. 1930)
Standing Figure II
signed with the artist's monogram and dated '86' (on the reverse of the right leg)
bronze with black patina
160 x 48 x 28cm.
Executed in 1986, this work is from an edition of circa five

Provenance

Arnold Herstand Gallery, New York.
Private Collection, Chicago.
Jonas Mekas Collection, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 18 November 1998, lot 194.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

Magdalena Abakanowicz, exh. cat., Mücsarnok, Budapest, 1988, no. 135 (installation view of another from the edition illustrated).
D. Ronte, Hess Collection, New York 1989, p. 16 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 17).

Exhibited

Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst, Orwell und die Gegenwart, 1984 (another from the edition exhibited).
Scottsdale, Arizona, Riva Yares Gallery, Magdalena Abakanowicz: Sculpture, 1988 (another from the edition exhibited).
Chicago, Richard Gray Gallery, Magdalena Abakanowicz, 1990, p. 32, no. 3 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 12).

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