116: DONALD JUDD, chair < Important 20th Century Design Session 1, 20 May 2007 < Auctions

Important 20th Century Design Session 1

20 May 2007

Important 20th Century Design Session 1

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Donald Judd
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chair

USA, 1979
pine 30 h × 15 w × 16 d in (76 × 38 × 41 cm)

estimate: $40,000–60,000

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This example was one of Judd's earliest experiments in chair design and was never put into production. Built in his Marfa studio, the chair is hand-signed and dated in pencil to underside: [DJ 79 C].
provenance: Gift from the artist to Flavin Judd, New York Sotheby's, New York, December 13, 2003, Lot 716 Private collection, Los Angeles
exhibited: Design/Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York, September 2004-February 2005

Donald Judd 1928–1994

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Donald Judd is one of the most important artists and art theorists of the twentieth century. While he is most well-known for his minimalist, monumental and site-specific sculptures of the 1970s and 1980s, he was also a painter, furniture designer and an influential critic, ultimately shaping the contemporary artistic discourse.

Judd was born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri and served in the Army from 1946 to 1947, until he attended the College of William and Mary to study philosophy. He transferred to Columbia University in 1948, graduating with a degree in philosophy and art history in 1953, while also taking painting classes at the Art Students League. From 1959 to 1965, Judd was an art critic for major art publications such as Art News, where he refined his unaffected, direct, articulate style that characterized both his writing and art, aligning himself with the radical shifts taking place in the art world at the time.

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