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My work is all about drawing, as well as volume, or lack of volume, or air. A lot of the forms I have done are vessels that are containing something, or not containing something, and are living and breathing.
—Lynda Benglis
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Female Artists from an Important American Collection
Lynda Benglis (b. 1941)
Argonauta
Details
Lynda Benglis (b. 1941)
Argonauta
signed and titled 'LYNDA BENGLIS "ARGONAUTA"' (on the reverse)
gold leaf, gesso, Hydrocal, oil base size and brass wire mesh
35 ½ x 34 x 2 in. (90.2 x 86.4 x 5.1 cm.)
Executed in 1980.
Argonauta
signed and titled 'LYNDA BENGLIS "ARGONAUTA"' (on the reverse)
gold leaf, gesso, Hydrocal, oil base size and brass wire mesh
35 ½ x 34 x 2 in. (90.2 x 86.4 x 5.1 cm.)
Executed in 1980.
Provenance
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York, 1980
Anon. sale; Sotheby's Arcade, New York, 7 November 1997, lot 464
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Private collection, New York, 1980
Anon. sale; Sotheby's Arcade, New York, 7 November 1997, lot 464
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Center for the Visual Arts, Natural Forms and Forces: Abstract Images in American Sculpture, May-June 1986, p. 21 (illustrated).
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My work is all about drawing, as well as volume, or lack of volume, or air. A lot of the forms I have done are vessels that are containing something, or not containing something, and are living and breathing.
—Lynda Benglis