Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)

Pylon

Details

Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988)
Pylon
stamped with artist's name, title, number, fabricator and date '14/18 ISAMU NOGUCHI PYLON 1959-1981 Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles' (on a metal plaque affixed to the inside)
galvanized steel
Height: 114 in. (289.5 cm.)
Width: 20 in. (50.2 cm.)
Depth: 20 in. (50.2 cm.)
Executed in 1981. This work is number fourteen from an edition of eighteen plus six artist's proofs.

Provenance

Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 4 June 1981.

Literature

I. Noguchi, The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, New York, 1987, pp. 266-267, no. 2 (another cast illustrated, p. 267).

Further details

Pylon, 1981, is a steel replica of the aluminum original of 1958.

Lot Essay

"The promise of sculpture is to project. . . inner presences into forms that can be recognized as important and meaningful in themselves."
-Isamu Noguchi