Paul Pfeiffer - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, May 11, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    The Project, New York
    Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000

  • Exhibited

    Cambridge, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Paul Pfeiffer, February 6 - April 6, 2003; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, May 3 - August 31, 2003 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    L. Chua, "An Un-home at the End of the World", Paul Pfeiffer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2003, p. 51 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    "The title refers to the movie ‘Poltergeist’ and the sculpture specifically is a detail in a scene from the movie, but an important detail I think. The detail it relates to is a moment in the kitchen in this haunted house in the suburbs in California somewhere. Everything seems normal and then one day in the kitchen Mom turns around and finds all the kitchen furniture rearranged, in literally the blink of an eye, into this baroque configuration." - Paul Pfeiffer

213

Poltergeist

2000
laser-fused polyamide powder in a wooden, glass, and linen vitrine
21 x 17 1/2 x 17 1/2 in. (53.3 x 44.5 x 44.5 cm)
This work is number three from an edition of three plus two artist's proofs.

Estimate
$50,000 - 70,000 

Contemporary Art Day Sale

Contemporary Art Day
11 May 2012
New York