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Constante no. 9
Details
Jean Tinguely (1925-1991)
Constante no. 9
signed, titled, dedicated and dated 'CONSTANTE No 9 POUR GEORGES 1960 TINGUELY' and with the artist's fingerprints (on the reverse)
painted metal base with two moving painted wires and electrical footswitch to start it moving
13½in (34.4cm.) high
Executed in 1960
Constante no. 9
signed, titled, dedicated and dated 'CONSTANTE No 9 POUR GEORGES 1960 TINGUELY' and with the artist's fingerprints (on the reverse)
painted metal base with two moving painted wires and electrical footswitch to start it moving
13½in (34.4cm.) high
Executed in 1960
Provenance
Staempfli Gallery, New York.
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich.
Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich.
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich.
Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich.
Literature
C. Bischofberger, Jean Tinguely. Catalogue raisonné Sculptures and Reliefs 1954-1968, Zürich, 1982, no. 181 (illustrated p. 138).
Exhibited
New York, The Jewish Museum, Two Kinetic Sculptors, Nicolas Schöffer-Jean Tinguely, November 1965-January 1966, no. 51 (illustrated p. 20).
Special notice
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