Lucas Samaras

Chair Transformation #6

1969–1970

A tall wire-framed chair with bright multicolored woven yarn seat and back.
A tall wire-framed chair with bright multicolored woven yarn seat and back.

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Date
1969–1970

Classification
Sculpture

Medium
Plated steel wire, yarn, and string

Dimensions
Overall: 33 5/16 × 12 3/8 × 12 3/8 in. (84.6 × 31.4 × 31.4 cm)

Accession number
70.1570

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

API
artworks/1682

Lucas Samaras
128 works in the collection, 25 exhibitions

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