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Property of Enron DONALD JUDD (1928-1994) UNTITLED Cor-ten steel and Plexiglas in two parts ...

Currency:USD Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD
Property of Enron DONALD JUDD (1928-1994) UNTITLED Cor-ten steel and Plexiglas in two parts ...
DONALD JUDD
(1928-1994)
UNTITLED
Cor-ten steel and Plexiglas
in two parts
393/8 x 393/8 x 193/4 in.
(100 x 100 x 50 cm) each
executed in 1984
ESTIMATE: $100,000-150,000
PROVENANCE
Leo Castelli Gallery, NEW YORK
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Asher B. Edelman, NEW YORK
PaceWildenstein Gallery, NEW YORK
LITERATURE
PaceWildenstein Gallery, DONALD JUDD, NEW YORK, 2002, fig. 13 (illustrated)
When Judd used pairs of wall boxes as a single work, he created an analogous effect by representing two of a number of possible variations of a structural type, but without resorting to mirror-image combinations. In other words, Judd tested out arbitrary oppositions instead of using standard opposites. He guessed, and the guess was right. The result was symmetrical asymmetry. I can't determine with certainty that Judd never employed mirror-image combinations but if he did, it would have been inconsistent with his notion of "local order." His pairs relate as one thing against another, not one thing as the reverse or inverse of another. With the latter possibility, I would suspect the imposition of a theory, rather than the immediacy of a guess-a guess "intelligent without being ordered."
R. Shiff, "A Space of One to One," DONALD JUDD, PaceWildenstein,
NEW YORK, 2002, p. 17