Sale 5142
London, South Kensington
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22 January 2007
Price realised
GBP 1,440
Estimate
The Animator patented zoetrope L. [?], France; the 5¼ inch (13½cm.) metal drum holding a X-shaped picture card and base with English, Spanish, French and German printed instruction sheet, on a turned wood base
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Literature
Thomas Ganz (1994), Die Welt im Kasten, p. 130.
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On 6 and 7 of December Christie’s will offer almost 400 lots from a collection that includes works by Hals, Van Dyck, Leyster, Snyders and Jan Brueghel the Elder
Offered to benefit a new scholarship initiative from Bennington College, this work distils the unique form of abstraction for which the artist would become famous