George Rickey (b. 1907)
Column of Six Parallelepipeds
signed, numbered and dated '1/3 Rickey 1986' (on the base)
brushed aluminum
Height: 90 in. (228.6 cm.)
Span: 16 in. (40.6 cm.)
Executed in 1986; this work is number one from an edition of three
Provenance
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
Literature
I. Noguchi, The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, New York, 1987, pp. 266-267 (another cast illustrated, p. 267, no. 2).
Lot Essay
This Pylon series replicates in steel the aluminum original of 1958.