Lot 46: Eva Hesse (1936-1970)

Eva Hesse (1936-1970)
Untitled (Bochner Compart)
signed, inscribed and dated 'FOR MEL B. E. HESSE 1966' (on the reverse)
acrylic and cord on papier-mâché and masonite
9 x 9 x 2 in. (22.9 x 22.9 x 5.1 cm.)
Executed in 1966.

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; Pasadena Museum of Modern Art and Berkeley, University of California Art Gallery, Eva Hesse: A Memorial Exhibition, December 1972-February 1974, no. 9.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum Weisbaden; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and London, Tate Modern, Eva Hesse, February 2002-March 2003, pp. 192 and 323, no. 125, pl. 63 (illustrated in color).
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, March-July 2004, pp. 221, 223 and 448 (illustrated).
New York, Jewish Museum, Eva Hesse Sculptures, May-September 2006, p. 62, pl. 7 (illustrated in color).

L. Lippard, Eva Hesse, New York, 1976, pp. 65 and 223, no. 24, fig. 83 (illustrated).
B. Barrette, Eva Hesse Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1989, pp. 94-95, no. 35 (illustrated in color).
B. Rosen and R. Petzinger, Eva Hesse: Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II: Sculpture, New Haven, 2006, pp. 114 and 115, no. S 47 (illustrated in color).
C. de Zegher, ed., Eva Hesse: Drawing, exh. cat., New York, Drawing Center, 2006, pp. 220-221 (illustrated in color).
J. Weiss, Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 2007, p. 35 (illustrated in color).
Mel Bochner: Language, 1966-2006, Art Institute of Chicago, 2007, p. 20 (illustrated in color).

Mel Bochner and Lizbeth Marano, New York, acquired directly from the artist
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 16 May 2007, lot 12
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Eva Hesse (1936-1970)
Untitled (Bochner Compart)
signed, inscribed and dated 'FOR MEL B. E. HESSE 1966' (on the reverse)
acrylic and cord on papier-mâché and masonite
9 x 9 x 2 in. (22.9 x 22.9 x 5.1 cm.)
Executed in 1966.