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Bertoia 59.46 - label from 'Recent Sculpture USA' exhibition, originating at MoMA in 1959

Installation view of 'Recent Sculpture USA,' 1959, Museum of Modern Art, New York

Photo: Museum of Modern Art

S.NF.3

Untitled

Alternate title: Flower

c.1957

Creation location: Bally, PA

Bronze-coated steel and bronze chrome

Melt-coated

38 x 18 x 10 in. (96.5 x 45.7 x 25.4 cm)

Base: 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in. (26.7 x 26.7 cm)

Provenance

Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago, 1957

Staempfli Gallery, New York, 1959

(...)

Bill Strauss, New York

Sotheby's, New York, May 25, 2021, Important Design, Noguchi to Lalanne, Lot 124

Unknown owner, May 25, 2021 (purchased)

Exhibitions

1959 MoMA

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Recent Sculpture U.S.A., May 13–August 16, 1959. (MoMA 1959). Traveled to: Denver Art Museum, Denver, October 12–November 22, 1959; Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, February 22–April 3, 1960; City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, May 3–June 12, 1960; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 14–October 16, 1960.

Published References

MoMA 1959

Museum of Modern Art. "Recent Sculpture U.S.A." Bulletin of the Museum of Modern Art (New York) 26, no. 3 (Spring 1959) (1959 MoMA), no. 6, ill. b/w, n.p., as Flower.

Time 1959

"Sculpture 1959: Elegant, Brutal & Witty." Time 73, no. 24 (June 15, 1959), ill. in color, p. 71, as Flower.

Type: Nail Form

Keyword:
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Record last updated December 9, 2025. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Harry Bertoia Foundation. "Untitled, c.1957 (S.NF.3)." In Harry Bertoia Catalogue Raisonné. catalogue.harrybertoia.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=637 (accessed on January 29, 2026).