Study for Falling Man: 48" Landscape

Artist Ernest Trova American, 1927–2009

Date1966

MediumStainless steel; nickel-plated bronze

Dimensions12 x 48 x 48 in. (30.5 x 121.9 x 121.9 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the State of North Carolina

Object numberG.76.15.4

On View

Not on view

ProvenancePace Gallery, New York; sold to Max Wasserman, Boston, Mass., c. 1966; Sale, Los Angeles, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Feb. 3, 1975, no. 54;sold to private collector; with Pace Gallery, New York, 1976; sold to NCMA, 1976.
Exhibition HistoryBoston, MA, Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts Gallery, "American Artists of the Nineteen Sixties," February 6-March 14, 1970, illus. (b-w) p. 58.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Recent Acquisitions," September 25-October 23, 1977.
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