Lot Essay
This drawing is related to Smithson's project for the Kaiser Steel Company for the Art and Technology program for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1961-1971.
Property from the Collection of Victor and Sally Ganz
Robert Smithson (1938-1973)
The Museum in the World's Fair (Japan)
Details
Robert Smithson (1938-1973)
The Museum in the World's Fair (Japan)
signed and dated 'R. Smithson 69 L.A.' center right, titled 'THE MUSEUM IN WORLD'S FAIR (JAPAN)' upper center and inscribed 'Materials to placed randomly than mapped photos + maps of company sites and museum site on Display Tin Sheet WALL Coke Shoring Floor Coke shoring up Tin Sheet Powdery Limestone Ash DRY Limestone Islands CEMENT Strata of cement Building Fragment from Cement Building Steel Slag half buried GROUND IRON PELLETS TIN SHEET DRAPED THROUGH A TREE' throughout
graphite on composition board
16¾ x 13¾in. (42.5 x 35cm.)
Drawn in 1969.
The Museum in the World's Fair (Japan)
signed and dated 'R. Smithson 69 L.A.' center right, titled 'THE MUSEUM IN WORLD'S FAIR (JAPAN)' upper center and inscribed 'Materials to placed randomly than mapped photos + maps of company sites and museum site on Display Tin Sheet WALL Coke Shoring Floor Coke shoring up Tin Sheet Powdery Limestone Ash DRY Limestone Islands CEMENT Strata of cement Building Fragment from Cement Building Steel Slag half buried GROUND IRON PELLETS TIN SHEET DRAPED THROUGH A TREE' throughout
graphite on composition board
16¾ x 13¾in. (42.5 x 35cm.)
Drawn in 1969.
Provenance
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the late owners on June 5, 1975 for $1,125.
Acquired from the above by the late owners on June 5, 1975 for $1,125.