Chair Transformation Number 20B
Lucas Samaras
1996
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View on museum website →Medium
patinated bronze
Dimensions
overall: 360.7 x 67.3 x 223.5 cm (142 x 26 1/2 x 88 in.) gross weight: 1100 lb.
Classification
Sculpture
Department
CMC
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
The Nancy Lee and Perry Bass Fund
Accession Number
1998.99.1
About the Artist
Lucas Samaras
Lucas Samaras, a Greek-born American artist renowned for his boundary-defying explorations of self and identity, was born on September 14, 1936, in Kastoria, Greece. Immigrating to the United States with his family in 1948 amid the turmoil of World War II and the Greek Civil War, he settled in West New York, New Jersey. Samaras pursued studies at Rutgers University from 1955 to 1959, where he befr...