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Post War & Contemporary Art 
Mathias Goeritz, Open Mind or Empty Head - Image 1 of 6
Mathias Goeritz, Open Mind or Empty Head - Image 2 of 6
Mathias Goeritz, Open Mind or Empty Head - Image 3 of 6
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Mathias Goeritz 1915–1990

Open Mind or Empty Head

1950
dried carved gourds smallest: 2⅝ h × 1⅛ dia in (7 × 3 cm) largest: 4 h × 3¾ dia in (10 × 10 cm)
estimate: $7,000–9,000
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Signed to interior of five elements 'MG'.
provenance: Los Angeles Modern Auctions, Modern Design & Fine Art, 3 December 2006, Lot 325 | Private Collection
literature: Mathias Goeritz, Morais, pg. 110

This work will ship from Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey.

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You know that I am a bastard child of German Expressionism… I always liked to exaggerate and to make gigantic or minuscule things. What always shocked me was the damn human measure. For me, what counted always was the divine measure.

Mathias Goeritz

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