1964.112.A-B.FA Diminishing Reflections VIII (Left & Right)

Louise Nevelson is best known for her wooden works composed of collected urban debris. Influenced by Marcel Duchamp’s found object sculptures, which incorporated everyday materials such as sinks and bicycle wheels, Nevelson carefully arranged her found materials into compositions that evoke the sense of a shrine. She unified the different objects, such as dowels and spindles, by painting them in her trademark color, black, which transformed the individual tools from practical objects into an invitation to meditation. Although primarily a sculptor, Nevelson shared a similar formal focus with the abstract expressionist painters. Diminishing Reflections VIII (Left & Right) explores line, flatness, and scale through careful attention to the relationship between the unique forms of the left and right containers.

DMA label copy, 2014.

Until 1964: Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)

1964: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, purchased from Pace Gallery, New York [1]

Notes:

The main source for this provenance is the object record card in the Collections Records object file (1964.112).

[1] The name of the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1933, was changed to the Dallas Museum of Art in 1984.

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