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John Cage

Lot 677
Buckminster Fuller, Mesostics (Etudes Australes), 1975
Ballpoint pen and pencil

17.5 x 12.0 in (44.5 x 30.5 cm)

Lot 677
Buckminster Fuller, Mesostics (Etudes Australes), 1975
Ballpoint pen and pencil
17.5 x 12.0 in (44.5 x 30.5 cm)

Estimate:
€ 7,000 - 9,000
Auction: 19 days

Van Ham Kunstauktionen

City: Cologne
Auction: Jun 04, 2025
Auction number: A533
Auction name: Modern, Post War & Contemporary

Lot Details
CAGE, JOHN
1912 Los Angeles - 1992 New York

Title: Where R = Ryoanji R/16, 12/90.
Date: 1990.
Technique: Pencil on handmade Japan.
Measurement: 25,5 x 48cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: John Cage 12/90. Also titled lower left: R/16.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.


Provenance:
- Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York (adhesive label)
- Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati (adhesive label)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Exhibitions:
- Kunsthaus Zürich/Städtische Galerie Erlangen, 1991
- Zentrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen 1992
- Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt a.M. 1993
- Karen McCready Fine Arts, New York 1999
- New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, 2000
- Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York 2002
- Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York 2009
- Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York 2012

Literature:
- Thierolf, Corinna: John Cage, Ryoanji, Catalogue Raisonné of the Visual Artworks, Vol. 1, Munich 2013, p. 148, cat. rais. no. 157, p. 184, ill.
- Exhib. cat. John Cage. Partituren, Graphik, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle. Kunsthaus Zürich/Städtische Galerie Erlangen 1991, cat. no. 34, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Observation: Notation, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, 2000.
Lot Details
CAGE, JOHN
1912 Los Angeles - 1992 New York

Title: Where R = Ryoanji R/16, 12/90.
Date: 1990.
Technique: Pencil on handmade Japan.
Measurement: 25,5 x 48cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: John Cage 12/90. Also titled lower left: R/16.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.


Provenance:
- Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York (adhesive label)
- Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati (adhesive label)
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Exhibitions:
- Kunsthaus Zürich/Städtische Galerie Erlangen, 1991
- Zentrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen 1992
- Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt a.M. 1993
- Karen McCready Fine Arts, New York 1999
- New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, 2000
- Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York 2002
- Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York 2009
- Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York 2012

Literature:
- Thierolf, Corinna: John Cage, Ryoanji, Catalogue Raisonné of the Visual Artworks, Vol. 1, Munich 2013, p. 148, cat. rais. no. 157, p. 184, ill.
- Exhib. cat. John Cage. Partituren, Graphik, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle. Kunsthaus Zürich/Städtische Galerie Erlangen 1991, cat. no. 34, ill.
- Exhib. cat. Observation: Notation, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, 2000.

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