Post War & Contemporary Art 
13 September 2023
Post War & Contemporary Art 
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Donald Judd 1928–1994

Untitled (Tomato Red)

1991
anodized extruded aluminum 5 h × 41 w × 5 d in (13 × 104 × 13 cm)
estimate: $100,000–150,000
result: $252,000
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Impressed signature, date, number and manufacturer's marks to metal plaque to underside 'Don Judd 1991 Edition Schellmann München-New York Aluminum AG Menziken No. 6/12'. This work is number 6 from the edition of 12 fabricated by Aluminium AG Menziken, Switzerland and published by Edition Schellmann, Munich and New York.
provenance: Collection of Janet and Stanley Kantor | Private Collection
literature: Schellmann 23

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Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface. [...] It isn’t necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality as a whole, is what is interesting.

Donald Judd

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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