Prints + Multiples 
26 February 2020
Prints + Multiples 
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Bryan Hunt b.1947

Table

1984
maple, mahogany and steel 31 h × 96½ w × 48 d in (79 × 245 × 122 cm)
estimate: $2,500–3,500
result: $3,750
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This work is number 1 of 4 artist's proofs apart from the intended edition of 15 of which only 8 numbered editions and 4 artist's proofs were realized. Published by A/D, New York.
provenance: A/D, New York
exhibited: The Library, c. 1989, A/D, New York | X6: New Directions in Multiples, 26 January - 3 May 1992, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (traveled to Dayton Art Institute, 21 June 1992 - 30 July 1992) | Bryan Hunt: Recent Work, 1994, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
literature: Elisabeth Cunnick and Peter Joseph, A/D at the Peter Joseph Gallery New York, (catalogue for the exhibition September 17 - October 24), 1992 (illustrated, page 25). | Barbara Bloemink and Joseph Cunningham, Design ? Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian and Merrell, London and New York, 2004, cat illustration no. 89.

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Influential Edition

From the A/D Archive

A/D (Artist Designer), a strong and unique voice in the 1980s and 1990s, commissioned visual artists to create functional objects that were meant to be lived with and used. The idea was that visual artists would bring different solutions to design problems, and would challenge material limits in ways that designers and architects normally would not. The success of the gallery and all that they published was a result of this challenge, and of the standards that they were willing to commit to projects. The roster of artists published by A/D is impressive, from Sol LeWitt and Chuck Close, to Jennifer Bartlett and Arlene Shechet. Further, A/D worked with the best possible fabricators who often worked closely with the artists to realize their vision and create works in small editions.

While many of the A/D editions were successful in their time, a number of the editions were never completed. Since A/D closed some 20 years ago, no other publisher has pursued this path in the same way. A/D remains a very special marker of its decade, and their editions represent an important impulse that is still influential. 

The present work is an example that A/D retained for its own archives.

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