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Writing Piece "Knob"

Writing Piece "Knob"

Anthony Caro

Artist
Anthony Caro
(English, 1924 - 2013)
Title
Writing Piece "Knob"
Date
1979
Medium
Steel and solder
Dimensions
14 1/2 x 16 x 10 1/2 in. overall
Credit
Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection
Accession No.
2012.54.9.1
Classification
Sculpture
Geography
England

Related

1979, sold by Andre Emmerich Gallery (New York, NY) to Janie C. Lee Gallery (Houston, TX) [1]; 4 May 1994, sold by Christie’s (New York, NY) [sale no. 7874, lot 164] to Terese and Alvin S. Lane (New York, NY); 2007, deposited on long-term loan to the Chazen Museum of Art; 2012, bequeathed to the Chazen Museum of Art [1] In a letter to Alvin Lane, Andre Emmerich Gallery speculates that it went from the Janie C. Lee Gallery to a private collector before being consigned to Christie’s

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper." Madison, WI: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1995. pp. 41, 76, cat. no. 9.1; pl. 5

  • Modernist Sculpture: The Terese & Alvin S. Lane Collection: Chazen Museum of Art, 7/19/2008–9/28/2008
  • Lane Collection, The: Twentieth-Century Sculpture and Sculptors' Works on Paper: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 9/30/1995–12/3/1995

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