Lucas Samaras. Box #51, (1966).

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Emily Hall Tremaine / Collection
15 March 2019 | Updated 13 April 2019

Lucas Samaras
Box #51, (1966)
Painted wooden construction with colored yarns, plastic jewels, colored acetate, electric light bulb, glass bottle, and magne-matic stirrer— kinetic closed
14 x 14 3/4 x 14 in. (35.6 x 37.4 x 35.6 cm)
Acquired 1966 from Pace Gallery

The current location of Lucas Samaras’s Box #51 is unknown.

To learn more about Lucas Samaras’s Box #51 since 1966, click the link(s) to articles and exhibition compilations with documentation below.


Photos by Louise Lawler showing Lucas Samaras’s Box #51 :

> Louise Lawler. "I can see the whole room... and there’s nobody in it", arranged by Mr. & Mrs. Burton Tremaine, Sr., Connecticut, (1984).

> Louise Lawler. "I can see the whole room...", (1984 / 1999).

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