Post War & Contemporary Art 
11 March 2021
Post War & Contemporary Art 
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Burgoyne Diller 1906–1965

First Theme

1963
painted wood construction 46½ h × 7½ w × 5¾ d in (118 × 19 × 15 cm)
estimate: $25,000–35,000
result: $68,750
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Signed and dated to verso ‘d-63 Diller'.
provenance: Estate of the artist | Private Collection
exhibited: 67th Annual American Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, 28 February - 12 April 1964, The Art Institute of Chicago | Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, New Jersey, 8 - 12 May 1966 | Burgoyne Diller, an American constructivist: paintings, sculptures, drawings, 12 December 1971 - 16 January 1972, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (traveling exhibition)
literature: 67th Annual American Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago exhibition catalog, no. 27

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I’ve always had the feeling that art really develops through a kind of general activity. You can have your isolated geniuses, but it's always been somehow or other a product of a kind of ferment.

Burgoyne Diller

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