Louise Nevelson | Collegiate School

Louise Nevelson

Collegiate School

New York City, USA: Pace Edition, 1972

8.5" x 8.5" x 4.25"

Edition of 150 signed, dated and numbered copies

To create her signature relief collage sculptures, Nevelson would roam the streets of New York searching for cast off wood, from chair legs to balusters. The found objects would be arranged and spray painted a monochrome black, to disguise their original function and create abstract compositions. 

Black, Nevelson stated, "means totality. It means: contains all. It contained all color. It wasn't a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all. The only aristocratic color ... I have seen things that were transformed into black that took on greatness. I don't want to use a lesser word.”

This table-top sculpture casts a wooden assemblage in resin, and is mounted on a smoked acrylic stand. 

The works are signed, dated and numbered on the reverse, and have a current value of approximately five thousand US dollars.