08-15-200408-15-2004
Skinner Auctions
Skinner AuctionsBolton MA
2258
August 15, 2004 10:00 AMCalender
338A

Industrial Metal Nine-Tier Bottle Drying Rack

Sell one like this
$176$150
Auction: American Furniture & Decorative Arts - 2258Location: BoltonDate / Time: August 15, 2004 10:00AM

Description:

Industrial Metal Nine-Tier Bottle Drying Rack, America, 20th century. Literature: A similar bottle rack as sculpture is illustrated in What is Modern Sculpture? by Robert Goldwater (Museum of Modern Art, New York, publisher, 1969),p.52. The text relates: "Duchamp (Marcel) exercised no physical skills in the fabrication of his "readymade Bottle Rack....it is an industrial object...made to serve a practical function...he has isolated it from its familiar practical context and posed it...treating it like a work of art, he has transformed it into one, or at least a simulacrum of one." A photocopy of this work and article and a related article accompany the lot.
Estimate $300-500

Keywords

Robert Goldwater