CARL ANDRE (b. 1935)

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CARL ANDRE (b. 1935)

Sixteenth Copper Cardinal

sixteen copper plates
each: 1.4 x 19 5/8 x 19 5/8in. (.5 x 50 x 50cm.)
overall: 1.4 x 78¾ x 78¾in. (.5 x 200 x 200cm.)

Executed in 1976. This work is to be sold with a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Provenance

Sperone Westwater Fischer, Inc., New York
Saatchi Collection, London

Literature

P. Schjeldahl, Art of Our Time: Vol. 1, London 1984, no. 6 (illustrated)
C. Andre, R. Sartorius and B. Sarmina, Carl Andre, The Hague and Eindhoven 1987, p. 102, no. 1976-14

Exhibited

New York, Sperone Westwater Gallery, Carl Andre, March 1976
Sunderland, Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Three American Sculptors: Andre, Judd, Lewitt, 1989

Lot Essay

The Copper Cardinal Series was begun by Andre in Turin, Italy in 1972. The first seventeen of the series were completed by 1977 in New York. The works consist of square plates arranged in formation according to the mathematical character of the number of plates. If the number of plates is a primary number, indivisible by any number other than one, the Copper Cardinal is arranged in a linear format. If the number of plates is a composite number, or divisible by other numbers, the Copper Cardinal is arranged in either a rectangle or a square. In this work, the correct installation is a square format with one side of the square abutting a wall.