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Black Wedding Cake

Black Wedding Cake

Louise Nevelson

Artist
Louise Nevelson
(American, b. Ukraine, 1899 – 1988)
Title
Black Wedding Cake
Date
1955
Medium
Wood, paint, iron alloy, velvet
Dimensions
34 x 22 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. overall
Credit
Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection
Accession No.
7.2013.4.L24
Classification
Sculpture
Geography
United States

Related

23 June 1965, sold by the Pace Gallery of New York City, NY to a private collector. Formerly in teh collection of Dorothy H. Rautbord of Palm Beach, FL. Sold in New York City, NY at Christie''s auction 13 May 1998 (lot 204) and purchased by Alvin Lane.

  • Glimcher, Arnold. "Louise Nevelson." New York: Praeger, 1972. p. 201
  • Julia Bryan-Wilson, "Louise Nevelson's Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face." New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023. Vol. "Join," pp. 15-16, Vol. "Join," fig. 70

  • Louise Nevelson: Whitney Museum of American Art, 3/8/1967–4/30/1967

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