#1021 – Description:
Large Cooper Sculpture – Lila KATZEN (1932-1998)
- Artist: Lila KATZEN (Pell) (1932-1998)
- Signature: Signed at the base “Lile Katzen”
- Style: Modern Abstract
- Title: Untitled Abstract
- Medium: Cooper, standing on a painted metal base.
- Size: Overall 71″ x 37″ x 30″. The sculpture: 43″
- Age of this artwork: Undated, Circa 1970
- Condition: Undated, Circa 1970
- Color: Cooper. Base: Painted skeletons
- Provenance: Los Angeles Estate; Chuck Fries, Godfather of the Television Movie, and Ava Fries Estate, Beverly Hills
- Previous Auction Record sales for the artist:
- Lila Katzen (1932-1998) – At Christie’s 14 November 2019 Auction – Price realized USD 25,000 for her “Antecedent” (Small Version) steel, in two parts, overall: 6″ x 25″ x 11″ Executed circa 1975.
More about this artist: Lila KATZEN (Pell) (1932-1998)
- Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
- Death place: NYC
- Profession: Sculptor, painter, teacher
- Studied: ASL; Cooper Union; also with Hans Hofmann in NYC & Provincetown, MA
- Exhibited: BMA, 1955 (first solo); “Options,” Milwaukee Art Ctr., Wis., 1968; “Painting & Sculpture Today,” Indianapolis Mus., 1970; “Explorations “70” (S„o Paulo Biennale), Smithsonian Inst., Wash., DC, 1970; “Highlights of the Season,” Aldrich Mus., Ridgefield, CT, 1971; “Gedok,” Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany, 1972; WMAA, 1973; Max Hutchinson Gal., NYC, 1970s; World Expo., Brisbane, Australia, 1988.
- Awards: Tiffany Found. grant, 1964; Lannan Found. grant, 1966; Archit. League New York grant, 1968.
- Member: Arch. League, NYC.
- Work: NGA; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Georgia Mus. Art, Athens; Milwaukee Art Ctr.; Santa Barbara Mus., CA; Chrysler Mus., Norfolk, VA.
- Commissions: “Light-floors,” Archit. League New York, 1968; “Universe as Environment,” State Univ. NY Stony Brook, 1969; Laterna Magika, Czech Theatre Façade, Expo. 1970, Eurofilm Ltd., 1970; Moon-Marker Print Series, Irwin Hollander Workshop, New York, 1970; mediawall (with James R. Edmunds, Architect), Chesapeake & Potomac Tel. Co., Baltimore, Md., 1972.
- Comments: Abstract sculptor in steel, plastics, other metals. Teaching: MD Inst. Col. Art, 1962-70s.
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