Modern Design 
20 March 2005
Modern Design 
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Ruth Asawa

untitled (Basket Form)

USA, c. 1950
woven copper wire 5¾ h × 8½ dia in (15 × 22 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
result: $4,500
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Ruth Asawa attended Black Mountain College where she studied under Josef Albers and Buckminster Fuller. It was during these years that she developed her evocative crocheted wire forms. Asawa's work can be found in the collection of several institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This sculpture was in the personal collection of Irwin and Estelle Laverne.
provenance: Acquired directly from the artist Estate of Irwin and Estelle Laverne Private collection, Los Angeles

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