S otheby's Contemporary Art Online features sensational works on paper by renowned artists including Lee Bontecou, Saul Steinberg, Alexander Calder and others. Watch Queue Queue. One of the most widely recognized female artists of the 1960s, Lee Bontecou creates welded wall reliefs, hanging sculptures, and miniature, mystical drawings that reflect her interest in natural and man-made forms. your own Pins on Pinterest 1931) became widely known in the 1960s and 1970s for her welded steel sculptures and plastic and epoxy molded assemblages—powerful constructions that evoked natural phenomena and organic biological life as well as machines and instruments of war.
A selection of highlights will be on view in our New York galleries from 20 September–2 October 2019. She kept her work consistently in a recognizable style, and received broad recognition in the 1960s. Bontecou made abstract sculptures in the 1960s and 1970s and created vacuum-formed plastic fish, plants, and flower forms in the 1970s. During the 1960s, Lee Bontecou achieved both critical and commercial success: she gave three successive exhibitions at the Leo Castelli Gallery; participated in the São Paolo Biennale (1961); exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (1963) and at the documenta III in Kassel (1964); and published articles in Life and Newsweek.She withdrew from the art scene after the 1970s. Although these fantastical mobile and table-top structures are made from Bontecou's standard materials (steel, wire and fabric), they are lighter in mood. Bontecou’s best canvas wallpieces and her recent mobiles are not as Cubist as the fiberglass pieces. Artist Lee Bontecou (b. Bontecou made abstract sculptures in the 1960s and 1970s and created vacuum-formed plastic fish, plants, and flower forms in the 1970s.


Lee Bontecou (born January 15, 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American sculptor and printmaker and a pioneer figure in the New York art world.She kept her work consistently in a recognizable style, and received broad recognition in the 1960s. Jul 11, 2019 - Explore daraschaefer's board "Lee Bontecou" on Pinterest. Lee Bontecou (born January 15, 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American sculptor and printmaker and a pioneer figure in the New York art world. See more ideas about Lee bontecou, Sculpture art and Abstract sculpture.

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Untitled, 2004-2011 - Lee Bontecou Recent Work at Freedman Art New York City Oct. 27, 2011 thru Feb 11, 2012 Welded steel, epoxy, wire mesh, canvas, porcelain, and paint 55" x 12" x 29" Mobile Art Hanging Mobile Lee Bontecou Kinetic Art Abstract Sculpture New Art New York City Sculpting Art Prints

Lee Bontecou and Will Leewens It was for over 3 months in my mind that i had to visit the Lee Bontecou exhibition in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, but because of a full schedule i had to wait until the last day of the exhibition, which was yesterday.

This video is unavailable. Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective is the most comprehensive exhibition ever assembled of this influential 20th century American artist—one of the few women artists to receive major recognition in the 1960s. Artwork by …

For all their piecework, they have strong centers; Cubism does not. She kept her work consistently in a recognizable style, and received broad recognition in the 1960s.

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Watch Queue Queue … Lee Bontecou (born January 15, 1931 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American sculptor and printmaker and a pioneer figure in the New York art world. Apr 24, 2015 - This Pin was discovered by Mary Rouse. Lee Bontecou Untitled, 2004-2011 (detail) -Recent Work at Freedman Art New York City Oct. 27, 2011 thru Feb 11, 2012 Shapes that reference nature and the cosmos (including fish, plants and black holes) are common in the work of the sculptor LEE BONTECOU.

Suspended from the ceiling, the mobiles look like insular solar systems, with delicate porcelain discs threaded as carefully as beads.