Gallery Location
Not currently on view
- Artist/Maker
- Louise Nevelson
(American, b. Ukraine, 1899 – 1988) - Title
- Black Wedding Cake
- Date
- 1955
- Material & Process
- Wood, paint, iron alloy, and velvet
- Dimensions
- 34 x 22 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. overall
- Credit
- Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection
- Inventory No.
- 7.2013.4.L24
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Location
- United States
Related
23 June 1965, sold by the Pace Gallery (New York City, NY) to Dorothy H. Rautbord (Palm Beach, FL); 13 May 1998, sold by Rautbord at Christie’s (New York City, NY) auction [lot 204] and purchased by Alvin and Therese 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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