About the Artwork
The Old Bag Next Door is Nuts
1976
Howard Kottler
1930 - 1989
American
Unknown
Slipcast earthenware, ceramic decals, wood
Overall: 11 × 9 1/2 × 8 inches (27.9 × 24.1 × 20.3 cm)
Sculpture
Contemporary Art after 1950
Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection
2024.235
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Markings
Signed, in black type, on bottom right, back: HOWARD KOTTLER
Labeled, white on black label tape, lower right of wood base: THE OLD BAG NEXT DOOR IS NUTS Yaw Gallery label with typed artist statement: “I think that there is a nice play in this | piece between the illusionism of the wood | decel, [sic] wood contact paper and real wood in | addition to the real illusion in the unreal | world of scale.” | Howard Kottler | February 1977
Provenance
February 1977, sold by (Yaw Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, USA)
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Howard Kottler, The Old Bag Next Door is Nuts, 1976, slipcast earthenware, ceramic decals, wood. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection, 2024.235.
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