192 Pieces of Wood

Details

RICHARD LONG (B. 1945)
192 Pieces of Wood
wood, in one hundred and ninety-two parts
overall: 366 1⁄8 x 78 ¾in. (930 x 200cm.)
Executed in 1975

Provenance

Galerie Rolf Preisig, Basel.
Acquired from the above by the Crex Collection in 1975.
Thence to the present owner.

Literature

C. Sauer (ed.), Werke aus der Sammlung Crex, exh.cat., Basel, Kunsthalle, 1982, p. 7 (illustrated).
R.H. Fuchs, Richard Long, New York 1986, p. 238 (illustrated, p. 90).

Exhibited

Zurich, InK, Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Richard Long, 1978.
Zurich, InK, Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Werke aus der Sammlung Crex, 1978, p. 77 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Humlebaek, Louisiana Museum; Munich, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Eindhoven, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum.
Hamburg, Kunstverein, Werke aus der Sammlung Crex, 1981.
Zurich, Haus Konstruktiv, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman, 2004.
Winterthur, Kunstmuseum, Alan Charlton, Richard Long, 2021-2022.

Further Details

This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

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Lot Essay

‘My work has become a simple metaphor for life. A figure walking down his road, making his mark. It is an affirmation of my human scale and senses: how far I walk, what stones I pick up, my particular experiences. Nature has more effect on me than I on it. I am content with the vocabulary of universal and common means: walking, placing, stones, sticks, water, circles, lines, days, nights, roads’ (Richard Long)

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