Lot Essay
This work is included in The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné under the number 724B-ap2.
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Property From An Important Collection
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)
Messenger 2B
Details
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)
Messenger 2B
incised with the artist's initials and numbered 'I.N. A/P' (lower edge)
bronze plate
57 5/8 x 15 ½ x 18 ½ in. (146.4 x 39.4 x 47 cm.)
Executed in 1987. This work is the second artist's proof aside from an edition of six plus two artist's proofs.
Messenger 2B
incised with the artist's initials and numbered 'I.N. A/P' (lower edge)
bronze plate
57 5/8 x 15 ½ x 18 ½ in. (146.4 x 39.4 x 47 cm.)
Executed in 1987. This work is the second artist's proof aside from an edition of six plus two artist's proofs.
Provenance
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1989
Exhibited
New York, Arnold Herstand & Company, Isamu Noguchi - The New Bronzes: 1987-88, May-June 1988, p. 17, no. 15 (another example exhibited).
Osaka, Gallery Kasahara, ISAMU NOGUCHI The Bronzes: 1987-88, February-March 1989, no. 13 (illustrated).
Tokyo, Sogetsu Art Museum, Isamu Noguchi, November-December 2002.
Osaka, Gallery Kasahara, ISAMU NOGUCHI The Bronzes: 1987-88, February-March 1989, no. 13 (illustrated).
Tokyo, Sogetsu Art Museum, Isamu Noguchi, November-December 2002.