The Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonné: Artwork: Avatar: [253A]

253A

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1947

Georgia marble

76 3/4 x 27 9/16 x 30 5/16 in. (195 x 70 x 77 cm)

Not inscribed

Later cast in bronze in an edition of 8 plus 2 APs

Current Collection

Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands.

Provenance

Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, consigned 1968
Gallerie Claude Bernard, Paris, consigned 1968
Current collection, 1968

Published On

November 17 2011

Last Updated On

January 19 2025

Status

published

Related Exhibitions

Related Bibliography

Blackshear, Kathleen. "Abstract and Surrealist American Art." Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin, December 1947.
Isamu Noguchi. Exhibition pamphlet. New York: Egan Gallery, 1949.
De Kooning, Elaine. "Noguchi." Review of exhibtion, Isamu Noguchi at The Egan Gallery, New York. ARTnews 48 (March 1949): 52.
"Isamu Noguchi Defines the Nature and Enormous Potential Importance of Sculpture - 'The Art of Spaces.'" Related content, Isamu Noguchi at The Egan Gallery, New York. Interiors 108, no. 8 (March 1949): 118-123.
Devree, Howard. "A Stress on Space: Farther Left; For European Relief." Review of exhibtion, Isamu Noguchi at The Egan Gallery, New York. New York Times, 6 March 1949.
The 1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Exhibition catalogue. Pittsburgh: Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, in association with Carnegie Institute Press, 1958.
Isamu Noguchi. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Galerie Claude Bernard, 1964.
Noguchi, Isamu. Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's World. New York and Evanston, Illinois: Harper & Row, 1968.
Gordon, John. Isamu Noguchi. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with Admiral Press, 1968.
"Sculpture by Isamu Noguchi." Review of exhibition, Isamu Noguchi at the Minami Gallery, Tokyo. Japan Architect: International Edition of Shinkenchiku 48, no. 8 (August 1973): 16.
Sculptures By Isamu Noguchi. Exhibition catalogue. Tokyo: Minami Gallery, in association with Asahi Shinbun, 1973
Pond, Emily. "Isamu Noguchi." Christian Science Monitor, August 23, 1973.
Anderson, Wayne. American Sculpture in Process: 1930-1970. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975.
Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with David R. Godine Publisher, 1976.
Hunter, Sam. Isamu Noguchi. New York: Abbeville Press, 1978.
Friedman, Martin. Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes. Exhibition catalogue. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1978.
Botnick, Diane and Nancy Grove. The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924-1979: A Catalogue. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1980: i-xvii, 1-625
Grove, Nancy. Isamu Noguchi: A Study of the Sculpture. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1985: i-xx, 1-313.
Clareboudt, Jean. "Isamu Noguchi Precurseur." Art Press, June 1989.
Threlfall, Tim. Isamu Noguchi: Aspects of a Sculptor's Practice. Sussex, United Kingdom: Seagull Books, 1991.
Noguchi, Isamu. Isamu Noguchi: Essays and Conversations, edited by Bruce Altshuler and Diane Apostolos-Cappadona. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Isamu Noguchi Foundation, 1994.
Altshuler, Bruce. Isamu Noguchi. Modern Masters Series, vol. 16. New York: Abbeville Press, 1994.
Altshuler, Bruce and Robert S. Lubar. Miro & Noguchi: Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection. Miami: The Art Museum at Florida International University, 1995.
Fletcher, Valerie J., ed. Isamu Noguchi: Master Sculptor. Washington DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution and Whitney Museum of American Art, in association with Scala Publishers, Ltd., 2004.
Schevola, Nicola. "Private Noguchi, Weston Connecticut, USA." Casa Vogue, no. 31, (April 2009): 122 - 127.
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2009: illustrated.
Lyford, Amy. Isamu Noguchi's Modernism: Negotiating Race, Labor, and Nation 1930-1950. Berkeley, Los Angeles and New York: University of California Press, 2013.

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