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Lot 87
Lee Bontecou (American, 1931 - 2022)
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
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Untitled' from 'Ten from Leo Castelli.' Lithograph on muslin affixed to board and laid down on support mat (as issued). Edition of 200 (and 25 limited lettered proofs, A-Y.), published by Tanglewood Press, Inc., New York, 1967. Signed in pencil on the support and annotated AP. 14 x 13"; 23 3/4 x 19 3/4" (framed).
Born in Providence, RI, the late Lee Bontecou was an American sculptor who established herself as a key player in the New York art world during the 1960s and 1970s. Bontecou was offered her first solo exhibition by Leo Castelli in 1960. Met with critical acclaim, her wall-mounted reliefs constructed from stretched pieces of canvas over steel armatures defied the traditional boundary separating painting and sculpture. Eluding the industrial character of their raw materials, the central void of Bontecou’s abstract compositions garnered anthropomorphic associations as bodily orifices or fleshy wounds.
Lee Bontecou's idiosyncratic practice resisted easy identification with any particular art movement associated with the Leo Castelli Gallery which championed minimalism and pop art. She was the first, and for a time the only, woman artist represented by New York’s most prolific and trendsetting dealer. Equally active as a printmaker during her career, Bontecou translated her large-scale reliefs into a two dimensional lithograph for 10 from Leo Castelli. Published to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the eponymous gallery, the portfolio of ten multiples invited contributions from Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Frank Stella and Roy Litchsenstein among others.
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Born in Providence, RI, the late Lee Bontecou was an American sculptor who established herself as a key player in the New York art world during the 1960s and 1970s. Bontecou was offered her first solo exhibition by Leo Castelli in 1960. Met with critical acclaim, her wall-mounted reliefs constructed from stretched pieces of canvas over steel armatures defied the traditional boundary separating painting and sculpture. Eluding the industrial character of their raw materials, the central void of Bontecou’s abstract compositions garnered anthropomorphic associations as bodily orifices or fleshy wounds.
Lee Bontecou's idiosyncratic practice resisted easy identification with any particular art movement associated with the Leo Castelli Gallery which championed minimalism and pop art. She was the first, and for a time the only, woman artist represented by New York’s most prolific and trendsetting dealer. Equally active as a printmaker during her career, Bontecou translated her large-scale reliefs into a two dimensional lithograph for 10 from Leo Castelli. Published to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the eponymous gallery, the portfolio of ten multiples invited contributions from Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Frank Stella and Roy Litchsenstein among others.