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NOGUCHIISAMU NOGUCHI (1904-1988)
Mortality
signed, dated and numbered 2
bronze
75 by 20 by 18in. 190.5 by 50.8 by 45.7cm.
This sculpture is number two of six bronze casts executed from 1961 to 1988.
PROVENANCE
Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris
The Lambert Collection, Belgium
Christie's, New York, May 5, 1987, lot 4
Acquired by the present owner from the above
EXHIBITED
cf., New York, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, Isamu Noguchi, April 1963, cat. no. 4
cf., London, The Tate Gallery, Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, April-June 1964, cat. no. 104, p. 111, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, Isamu Noguchi, June 1964, no. 15, illustrated
Arnhem, Sonsbeek, 5e Internationale Beeldententoonstellig Sonsbeek'66, May-September 1966, cat. no. 176, p. 71, illustrated
cf., Zurich, Gimpel and Hanover Gallery, Isamu Noguchi, October-November 1968, cat. no. 6
cf., New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Isamu Noguchi, April-June 1968, cat. no. 27, p. 30, illustrated
cf., Tokyo, Minami Gallery, Isamu Noguchi, May-June 1973, cat. no. 14, illustrated
cf., Santa Barbara, University of California, 7+5 Sculptors of the 50's, January-February 1976, cat. no. 52, p. 90, illustrated
cf., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Denver Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Arts; Detroit Institute of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes, April 1978-October 1979, p. 17, illustrated
cf., New York, Arnold Herstand & Company, Isamu Noguchi: Bronze Sculpture, 1952-1962, October-December 1985, p. 13, illustrated
cf., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Individuals: a Selected History of Contemporary Art: 1945-1986, December 1986-January 1988, p. 132, illustrated in color
cf., New York, Pace Gallery, Isamu Noguchi: Bronze and Iron Sculpture, 1988, cat. no. 12, illustrated in color
cf., Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Isamu Noguchi Retrospective 1992, March-May 1992, p. 128, illustrated
cf., Monterrey, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey; Mexico City, Museum Rufino Tamayo, Noguchi and the Figure, February-September 1999, fig. 48, illustrated
LITERATURE
R. Buckminster Fuller, Isamu a Sculptor's World, New York, 1968, no. 93, illustrated
Sam Hunter, Isamu Noguchi, New York, 1978, p. 123, illustrated (the balsawood version)
Nancy Grove and Diane Botnick, The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979, a Catalogue, New York and London, 1980, cat. no. 497B, illustrated in color
Isamu Noguchi, The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, New York, 1987, no. 4, p. 91, illustrated
Dore Ashton, Noguchi East and West, New York, 1992, p. 152
Bruce Altshuler, Isamu Noguchi, New York, 1994, p. 86, p. 88, illustrated (the balsawood version)