Madam Mieux

Details

JOHN CHAMBERLAIN (1927-2011)
Madam Mieux
painted and chromium-plated steel
86 x 28 ½ x 21 ½ in. (218.4 x 72.4 x 54.6 cm.)
Executed in 1987.

Provenance

Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Private collection, California
Private collection, Florida
Private collection
Ross+Kramer Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2018

Exhibited

New York, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture, May-June 1987.
East Hampton, Gallery Valentine, Willem and John, August-September 2011.
Geneva, Gagosian Gallery, John Chamberlain: Poetic Form, September-November 2016.

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Lot Essay

“Chamberlain’s sculpture is simultaneously turbulent, passionate, cool and hard. The structure is the passionate part. The obvious comparison is to the structure of Baroque art: there is a diagrammatic resemblance and one of emotion, but certainly not one of philosophy.” – Donald Judd

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