Abstract Form (Flames)
Artist
Robert Laurent
American, born France, 1890–1970
Date1917–1922
MediumWood with wood base
DimensionsHeight: 25 1/8 in. (63.8 cm)
Height (without base): 22 1/8 in. (56.2 cm)
Height, width, and depth (base): 2 7/8 x 6 x 5 13/16 in. (7.3 x 15.2 x 14.7 cm)
Height (without base): 22 1/8 in. (56.2 cm)
Height, width, and depth (base): 2 7/8 x 6 x 5 13/16 in. (7.3 x 15.2 x 14.7 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object number2016.16
On View
Not on viewProvenance[Theodore Dreier (1902–1997)]; Private collection, Boston, MA, n.d.; sold to unnamed dealer, Cambridge, MA, n.d.; sold to Tom Veilleux Gallery, Portland, ME, n.d.; sold to NCMA, 2016.
Exhibition HistoryPortland, ME, Tom Veilleux Gallery, “Direct Carver: An Exhibition of America’s Modernist Sculptor, Robert Laurent,” December 4, 2012–January 25, 2013.
New York, NY, Bourgeois Galleries, “Exhibition of Sculpture by Robert Laurent,” March 4–25, 1922, no. 1 (as Flames).
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–October 30, 2023.
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William Wetmore Story
Modeled 1858–1863; carved 1864–1865
