Strange Bird

232B-1/8

Strange Bird

To the Sunflower
Unknown Bird
1945 (cast 1971)
Bronze, green patina
56 x 22 x 18 1/2 in. (142.2 x 55.9 x 47 cm)
Inscribed on underside of rectangular element: Isamu Noguchi 1/8 1945-72
Number 1 from an edition of 8 cast in bronze (1-3, 5, 8) and constructed in aluminum (4, 6, 7) plus 1 AC and 2 APs; conceived in slate
fabricated by Fonderia D'Arte Tesconi, Pietrasanta
Current Collection
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum; gift of the estate of Eileen Paradis Barber (Class of 1929), MH 1997.14.16
Provenance
Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, consigned 1972
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Barber, 1972
Current collection, gifted 1997
Published On
February 19 2015
Status
published
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