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Two Ideas for Sculpture: Organic Columns

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Two Ideas for Sculpture: Organic Columns
Two Ideas for Sculpture: Organic Columns
Two Ideas for Sculpture: Organic Columns

Two Ideas for Sculpture: Organic Columns

Date1954-56
Artwork TypeDrawing
Catalogue NumberHMF 2909 verso
Mediapencil, crayon
Dimensionspaper: 264 x 223 mm
Signature

unsigned, undated

Inscription

pencil l.c. organic column

OwnershipDavid and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago: The Joel Starrels Jr Memorial Collection 1974
Collections
More Information

From an unidentified sketchbook. The reclining figure study on the recto relates to the upper part of HMF 2602; the figures on the verso to the first state of CGM 78, proofed by Merlyn Evans in 1951.

ExhibitionsPublished References
Organic Forms: Columns
HMF 2602 verso
Organic Forms: Columns
c.1956
Torso Column
LH 859
Torso Column
1982
photo: Sarah Mercer
LH 859 plaster
Torso Column
1982
Torso Column
LH 859 cast 0
Torso Column
1982
Photo: Mike Bruce, courtesy of Gagosian
LH 639 cast 6
Column
1973
Column
LH 639
Column
1973
Column
LH 639 cast 0
Column
1973
Column
LH 639 plaster
Column
1973
photo: British Museum
HMF 1568
Group of Sleeping Figures and Two Ideas for Sculpture
1940-41
Ideas for Lead Sculpture: Two Reclining Figures
HMF 2071
Ideas for Lead Sculpture: Two Reclining Figures
1942
Two Ideas for Sculpture
HMF 2669 verso
Two Ideas for Sculpture
1950-51
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
HMF 2037
Ideas for Two-Figure Sculpture
1944 (misdated)