By Daria Harper | Sunday Observer

By Daria Harper

Portrait of Ruth Asawa forming a looped-wire sculpture, 1957. Photo by Imogen Cunningham. © 2019 Imogen Cunningham Trust. Courtesy of the Imogen Cunningham Trust
The enduring legacy of Ruth Asawa’s mesmerising sculptures
Despite some industry apprehension to put her work up for auction, in 2013, a massive Ruth Asawa sculpture, titled Untitled (late 1960s), shattered its high estimate of $350,000, selling for a whopping $1.4 million at Christie’s. The 11-foot amoeba-like hanging wire sculpture was sold in conjunction with the auction house’s exhibition “Ruth Asawa: Objects and Apparitions...
1 August, 2021
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