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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTOR

WENDELL CASTLE

Black Edition “Big Table,” from the “Molar” series, 2007

Gel-coated reinforced plastic.

29 x 215 x 57 in. (73.7 x 546.1 x 144.8 cm)

Produced by Wendell Castle Studio, Scottsville, New York. Number 3 from the edition of 8 plus 2 artist’s proofs. Incised with “Castle 07 3 / 8” and impressed with “molar/R.”

Sold for $74,500

• MORE LOT DETAILS
  Provenance R 20th Century, New York
  
  Literature Cara Greenberg, Op to Pop: Furniture of the 1960s, New York, 1999, pp. 58-59 for examples from the “Molar” series
  Donald Albrecht, AutoPlastic: Wendell Castle, 1968-1973, exh. cat., R 20th Century, New York, 2004, for an early white example
  Julie V. Iovine, “Plastic Fantastic: Wendell Castle’s Red, Yellow and Blue Period,” New York Times Style Magazine, April 1, 2007, p. 40
  Alastair Gordon, Wendell Castle: Wandering Forms, Works from 1959-1979, exh. cat., The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefeld, 2012, pp. 154-57 for a sketch of the model and a white example
  
  
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