Nov 21, 2019 - Sale 2525

Sale 2525 - Lot 265

Price Realized: $ 30,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
ENRIQUE CASTRO-CID
Anthropomorphicals I and II.

Plexiglas, wood, plastic and aluminum animated constructions, 1964-65. Each 1620x555x555 mm; 63 3/4x22x22 inches. Each signed and dated in red pencil on the base.

Exhibited "Enrique Castro-Cid: Robots," Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, January 5-30, 1965; "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1967, Thirteenth Exhibition," University of Illinois Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, March 5- April 9, 1967, no. 16, page 76-77, illustrated.

Published Diane P. Weinstein, "Chilean Artist's Robots Show Machines Can be Playful," Cornell Daily Sun, February 11, 1965. Justino Fernandez, Catálogo de las exposiciones de arte en 1970, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico, 1971, page 12, 17. Jack Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture, George Braziller, Inc., New York, 1975, page 349-350, figure 126.

Ex-collection Richard Feigen Gallery, New York and Chicago; private collection, Florida.