Gansevoort Gallery, New York
Michael and Susan Rich, Los Angeles, 1999
Los Angeles Modern Auctions, Los Angeles, "Modern Art & Design," December 16, 2012, lot 285
Acquired from the above by the present owner
"Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960," Brooklyn Museum of Art, October 12, 2001-January 6, 2002; then traveled to: The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, February 16-May 12, 2002; The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, June 21-September 15, 2002; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, November 17, 2002-February 23, 2003; Phoenix Art Museum, April 4-June 29, 2003
"Surreal Things: Surrealism & Design at the V&A," Victoria and Albert Museum, London, March 22-July 22, 2007; then traveled to: Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, September 29, 2007-January 6, 2008; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, March 3-September 7, 2008
ILLUSTRATED
Brooke Kamin Rapaport and Kevin L. Stayton, Vital Forms: American Art and Design in the Atomic Age, 1940-1960, exh. cat., Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, 1980, p. 30
Ghislane Wood, Surreal Things, Surrealism and Design, exh. cat., Victoria and Albert Museum London, 2007, p. 304
RELATED EXAMPLES
Nancy Grove and Diane Botnick, The Sculpture of Isamu Noguchi, 1924–1979: A Catalogue, New York, 1980, p. 147, cat. no. 810
Derek E. Ostergard, George Nakashima, Full Circle, exh. cat., American Craft Museum, New York, 1989, p. 134
Martin Eidelberg, Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was, New York, 1991, pp. 107-108
Bruce Altshuler, Noguchi, New York, 1994, p. 52 fig. 55
Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., Isamu Noguchi, Sculptural Design, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2001, pp. 78-79, 126-27, 287
Larry List, ed., The Imagery of Chess, exh. cat., The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, New York, 2005, cover, pp. vi, 129, 131
Mathias Schwartz-Clauss, Peter Dunas and Alexander von Vegesack, 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, exh. cat., Weil am Rhein, 2006, p. 149
On Becoming an Artist: Isamu Noguchi and his Contemporaries, exh. cat., The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum, Long Island City, 2011, pp. 77-78