Untitled

Lee Bontecou · 1959

Before you is an untitled relief by Lee Bontecou, nineteen fifty-nine: welded steel armature stretched with canvas and black fabric, darkened with soot, stitched together with wire. The canvas came from conveyor belts and mail sacks. At the centre is an opening you cannot see into.

Medium Welded steel, canvas, black fabric, soot, and wire · Dimensions 58 1/8 x 58 1/2 x 17 3/8" (147.5 x 148.5 x 44 cm) · Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold H. Maremont

Hanging beside it in Gallery 408: Book 4, Fries