154: MARK DI SUVERO, Untitled < 20|21 Art: The LA Edition, 24 April 2024 < Auctions

20|21 Art: The LA Edition

24 April 2024

20|21 Art: The LA Edition

154

Mark di Suvero b.1933
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Untitled

1972
torch-cut steel in five parts 9¾ h × 8 w × 2 d in (25 × 20 × 5 cm)

estimate: $1,500–2,000

result: $3,024

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Installation possibilities vary with this sculpture comprised of five individual pieces of steel.
Incised signature and impressed date and number to underside of one element ‘MDS 1972 24/250’. This work is number 24 from the edition of 250 published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles with their blindstamps.
provenance: Estate of Ruth Roes, Santa Barbara | Private Collection
literature: Gemini 391

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Ruth Roes

California Collector

As an artist and teacher living in West Hollywood, Ruth Roes was an avid collector of contemporary art, both from her fellow California artists and beyond, during the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. She later moved to Santa Barbara with her husband, where she continued collecting into the 2000s and was actively involved with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Roes personally knew most of the artists whose work she collected, often acquiring works directly.

I'm a constructivist... symbolical constructs—like language, like mathematics, like art—are the things that change people's minds. They are where we grow.

Mark di Suvero

Mark di Suvero b. 1933

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Mark di Suvero was born in China in 1933 to Italian parents. His father was a naval attaché and the family was transferred from Shanghai to California in 1941. Di Suvero attended the University of California first studying philosophy but became enamored with sculpture as he felt he could contribute more to art than to philosophy. While working part-time as a construction worker, he suffered a severe on-site elevator accident. While recovering, he learned how to work with an arc welder and his sculptures became ever larger. In 1963, di Suvero was one of the founding members of the Park Place Gallery in New York. In response to the Vietnam War, he crafted his 1966 sculpture Peace Tower in Los Angeles as an anti-war critique and in 1971 he left the United States for Europe as a voluntary protest against the war. He returned to the U.S. in 1974, and a major retrospective of his work was held at the Whitney Museum of American Art the following year. A tireless promoter of emerging artists, di Suvero founded the Socrates Sculpture Park in Astoria, Queens in 1986.

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