$16,380
Estimate: $15,000 - $25,000
Auction: May 17, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
Stained wood and electric motor.
Executed in 1962.
height: 15 3/8 in. (39cm)
width: 20 7/8 in. (53cm)
depth: 13 in. (33cm)
Provenance
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Weisberger, New York.
Private Collection, New York.
Exhibition
Galerie Diderot, Paris, Structures vivantes... Bury, Soto, Takis, April 26-May 1963, exh. cat. p.11, n/b (illus.).
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Soundings One: An International Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures, January 26-February 16, 1964, exh. cat., n.p.
Lefebre Gallery, New York, Pol Bury, October 12-November 7, 1964, p. 6, n/b (illus.).
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Kinetic and Optic Art Today, February 27-March 28, 1965, n. 12.
University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, Pol Bury, April 28-May 31, 1970, exh. cat., no. 4, p. 9 (illus.) then to The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, August 2-September 10, 1970; Museum of Art, University of Iowa, September 20-October 31, 1970; The Arts Club of Chicago, November 24, 1970-January 2, 1971; Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, January 24-March 7, 1971; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 15-June 6, 1971.
Literature
Peter Megert, Licht und Bewegung, Kinetische Kunst, Kunsthalle, Bern: Pochon-Jent, 1965. exh. cat., n.p. (illus.).
André Balthazar, Pol Bury, Milan: Sergio Tosi, 1967, n/b (illus.).
Dore Ashton, Pol Bury, Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1970, no. 24, p. 63 (illus.).
André Balthazar and Daniel Abadie, Cnacarchives 7. Pol Bury. Ivry, 1972, p. 11 (illus.).
Viviane Baras-Flament, Pol Bury. 2014 références bibliographiques en 4 volumes, Bruxelles, 1974, pp. VII, XXX.
Eugène Ionesco and André Balthazar, Pol Bury, Bruxelles: Cosmos, 1976, p. 382, n/b (illus.).
Karel Geirlandt, Phil Mertens, Jean Dypréau, Wim Van Mulders and Hedwige Verschaeren, L'Art en Belgique depuis 45, Anvers: Fonds Mercator, 1983, p. 117 (illus.).
Pol Bury. Les caves du Botanique, Bruxelles: Les Editions du Botanique, 1986, p. 60 (illus.).
Rosemarie E. Pahlke, Pol Bury, avec catalogue raisonné, Gand: Crédit communal, 1994, pp. 179-180, cat. 68-1. [The date in the catalog raisonné by R.E. Pahlke from 1968 is incorrect: the work is illustrated in the exhibition catalog at the Galerie Diderot in 1963, and V. Baras-Flament dates the work from 1962.]
Pol Bury, "Le temps dilaté," Christian Dotremont, Strates (Tervuren, October 1964, no. 3), n/b (illus.).
Francine-Claire Legrand, "Petit plaidoyer pour l'irréalisme… A propos de Pol Bury, Paul Van Hoeydonck et Vic Gentils," Quadrum (Bruxelles, no. 17) p. 42, n/b (illus.).
S.M. Taylor, "Pol Bury: Clinamen in Art," Studio International (New York), p. 237 (illus.).
Note
This lot is listed in the artist's online catalogue raisonné as #S030, prepared by Gilles Marquenie, [catalogue.polbury.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=S030].
Please see lot 9 for more information about this artist.