Christie's: POST WAR AND CONTEMPORARY (MORNING SESSION): Lot 173
John Chamberlain (b. 1927)
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Bags Down/Bags Down II painted and chromium-plated steel 37 x 35 x 28 in. (94 x 88.9 x 71.1 cm.) Originally executed in 1964, this work was reconfigured by the artist in 1973. PROVENANCE Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Lo Giudice Gallery, Chicago Hugh Hefner, Playboy Lake Geneva Resort, 1968 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1973 Acquired from the above by the present owner LITERATURE J. Sylvester, John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonn‚ of the Sculpture 1954-1985, New York, 1986, p. 81, no. 182 (the original version illustrated). EXHIBITION Pasadena Art Museum, New American Sculpture, February-March 1964, no. 10 (the original version exhibited). New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, John Chamberlain, April 1964 (the original version exhibited).
