Box #123

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LUCAS SAMARAS (1936-2024)
Box #123
wooden box construction with found objects—rhinestones, yarn, beads, mirrors, metal, wood, paint, plastic, glass, needles, shells, pin, porcelain, glass eye, cotton padding, printed paper collage and wire
open: 13 3⁄8 x 17 x 19 in. (34 x 43.2 x 48.3 cm.)
closed: 6 ¼ x 17 x 10 in. (15.9 x 43.2 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 1988.

Provenance

Collection of the artist
Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2013

Literature

R. Huntington, “A Little Something for Everyone at Freudenheim Sculpture Show,” Buffalo News, 15 February 1994, p. C5.
H. Barton, ed., Lucas Samaras: Boxes, Catalogue Raisonné, digital, ongoing, no. 1988.03 (illustrated).

Exhibited

Buffalo, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Sculpture, January-March 1994.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras, November 2003-February 2004, p. 276 (illustrated).

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“We live in boxes, see and eat with boxes, travel in boxes, and even our days and nights are boxes…I found myself making boxes. And I thought that box was as important a form as the rest of the art forms or categories. The professional scribblers were not willing to consider it as mainstream art. I stubbornly persisted in waiting for new verbal criteria to be formulated.”—Lucas Samaras

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