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Barton Lidice Beneš, Untitled (Book with Safety Pin); Untitled (Nail Book); Untitled (Orange Book with Bolts) (three works) - Image 1 of 3
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Barton Lidice Beneš, Untitled (Book with Safety Pin); Untitled (Nail Book); Untitled (Orange Book with Bolts) (three works) - Image 1 of 3
Barton Lidice Beneš, Untitled (Book with Safety Pin); Untitled (Nail Book); Untitled (Orange Book with Bolts) (three works) - Image 2 of 3
Barton Lidice Beneš, Untitled (Book with Safety Pin); Untitled (Nail Book); Untitled (Orange Book with Bolts) (three works) - Image 3 of 3
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Barton Lidice Beneš 1942–2012

Untitled (Book with Safety Pin); Untitled (Nail Book); Untitled (Orange Book with Bolts) (three works)

c. 1972-74
mixed media book constructions 7 h × 5 w × 3 d in (18 × 13 × 8 cm)
estimate: $800–1,000
result: $520
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Book with Safety Pin measures: 7 h x 5 w x 3 d inches.
Signed ‘B B’.

Orange book with bolts measures: 4 h x 6.5 w x 9.5 d inches.
Nail book measures: 7.56 h x 5.25 w x 4 d inches.
provenance: Acquired directly from the artist | Allan Stone Collection, New York
exhibited: Barton Benes: Books, 9 January - 24 February 2018, Allan Stone Projects, New York I Benes: Book Sculptures and Eyeglasses, April 1974, Allan Stone, New York

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The Visionary Eye of Allan Stone

Allan Stone; Allan Stone Gallery, New York, c. 1975. Images courtesy of the Allan Stone Collection


Founded in 1960 by art dealer Allan Stone (1932–2006), the New York gallery known today as Allan Stone Projects has been admired for over half a century. Celebrated for its eclectic approach and early advocacy of pivotal artists of the 20th century, Allan Stone Gallery was a leading authority on Abstract Expressionism, the New York dealer for Wayne Thiebaud for over forty years, and showed the works of Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Joseph Cornell, John Graham and John Chamberlain. Stone also promoted the work of a younger generation of artists that were in conversation with other artists in his collection, working in the mediums of assemblage, collage and new modes of abstraction. In addition to modern masterworks and contemporary art, Allan Stone also collected and exhibited international folk art, Americana and important decorative arts and industrial design.

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