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Lot 199: George Maciunas

Est: $60,000 USD - $80,000 USDSold:
Christie'sNew York, NY, USSeptember 21, 2011

Item Overview

Description

George Maciunas
Fluxkit
velveteen-lined vinyl attaché case, with built in wooden compartments, Flux Organ, Flux Music Box, Ay-O's Finger Box, four Fluxus Newspapers (ccV TRE) and a variety of fluxboxes including Eric Anderson's "Opera", George Brecht's "Water Yam", "Ball puzzle" and "Name Kit", Takehisa Kosugi's "Collective Events", Dick Hickins' "Boulders and Cannons", Robert Watts "Rocks marked by weight", Ben Patterson's "Instruction 2", Nam June Paik's "Zen for Film", Ben Vautier's "Holes" and "Dirty water", Chieko Shiomi's "Collected Events" and "Water Music", Robert Watts' "Collected Events with Fluxstamps", George Maciunas' "Fluxus East Box", and Alison Knowles' "Bean Rolls".
11 x 17 5/16 x 4 5/16 in. (28 x 44 x 11 cm.)
Executed in 1964-1965. (25)

Artist or Maker

Provenance

Bianchini Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1965

Notes

George Maciunas
Fluxkit
velveteen-lined vinyl attaché case, with built in wooden compartments, Flux Organ, Flux Music Box, Ay-O's Finger Box, four Fluxus Newspapers (ccV TRE) and a variety of fluxboxes including Eric Anderson's "Opera", George Brecht's "Water Yam", "Ball puzzle" and "Name Kit", Takehisa Kosugi's "Collective Events", Dick Hickins' "Boulders and Cannons", Robert Watts "Rocks marked by weight", Ben Patterson's "Instruction 2", Nam June Paik's "Zen for Film", Ben Vautier's "Holes" and "Dirty water", Chieko Shiomi's "Collected Events" and "Water Music", Robert Watts' "Collected Events with Fluxstamps", George Maciunas' "Fluxus East Box", and Alison Knowles' "Bean Rolls".
11 x 17 5/16 x 4 5/16 in. (28 x 44 x 11 cm.)
Executed in 1964-1965. (25)

Auction Details

First Open Contemporary Art

by
Christie's
September 21, 2011, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US