Lot 482: Charles LeDray , Untitled (Web)

embroidered with the artist's name; signed and dated 92 fabric, thread and buttons

79 by 57 in. 200.7 by 144.8 cm.

New York, Tom Cugliani Gallery, Charles LeDray , January - February 1993

Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1993

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF PENNY MCCALL

"LeDray gets the hurt of childhood to live in these voodoo-doll sculptures. It's as if this sadness and suffering, misery and malaise were displaced onto these poor deformed creatures so that the maker -- or the viewer -- might not have to know such trials, not have to bear the full brunt of such piercing ordeals. They have a sacrificial quality to them. They're so lovingly hand-made you want to cuddle them, care for them, take them out to play. They're so small and fragile that you know you've got to treat them gently. They're like infants in this way -- they inspire that kind of love and protectiveness." - Jerry Saltz ("It DonÂ?t Come Easy: Charles LeDrayÂ?s 'workworkworkworkwork'", Arts Magazine, April 1992, pp. 23-34)