Billy Apple® New Zealand, 1935-2021
Rainbow 8, 1964–65
Eight-coloured 12 mm glass tubing pumped with argon/neon gas, porcelain-enamel coated steel base.
48.5 x 32 x 46 cm
19 1/8 x 12 5/8 x 18 1/8 inches
19 1/8 x 12 5/8 x 18 1/8 inches
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The title of this work has been assigned based on handwritten notes located in the Billy Apple® archive. After its presentation at Bianchini Gallery it was sent to Paris for...
The title of this work has been assigned based on handwritten notes located in the Billy Apple® archive. After its presentation at Bianchini Gallery it was sent to Paris for an exhibition at Ileana Sonnabend Gallery in May 1966. That gallery’s label is still adhered to the sculpture’s base.
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Provenance
Acquired directly from the artistExhibitions
Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Art Electric, Paris, 6–18 May 1966, with Billy Apple, Leo Rabkin, Takis, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Watts, James Rosenquist, Robert Whitman, [Daniel] Smerck, Dan Flavin, Tom Wesselmann, Tom Lloyd, [Robert] Morris, Lynn, George Segal, and Jasper Johns.Billy Apple, Rainbows 1965, The Mayor Gallery, London, 18 May – 27 July 2022, cat. no. 41 ill.