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TONY ROSENTHAL Maquette for Big Six.
Black steel, circa 1975. 360x270x330 mm; 14 1/4x10 3/4x13 inches.
A study for the large-scale outdoor steel sculpture by Rosenthal at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.
Provenance: the artist's estate, New York; private collection, Chicago.
Rosenthal (1914-2009) is perhaps best known for his landmark, 15-foot high Cor-Ten steel cube, Alamo, 1967, poised on its tip, installed at Astor Place in lower Manhattan. Alamo was the first permanent contemporary outdoor public sculpture commissioned by the City of New York. Leading up to this career milestone, Rosenthal had received numerous other public commissions, and had also been producing smaller-scale studio sculpture of distinction for nearly two decades, first in Los Angeles and subsequently in New York. Since the late 1950s he experimented in a wide range of abstraction, from monolithic structures to more open geometric forms, often with elegant surface detailing concerned with effects of light and movement.
