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Robert Edward Therrien BIOGRAPHY
1947 Chicago, Illinois - 2019 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Abstract imagery, modernist sculpture, large-scale chairs and tables.
Following is the online obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, June 24, 2019. "Robert Therrien, Sculptor, Dies at 71; He Made the Mundane Monumental; Mr. Therrien’s dining room table was... Read full biography
Following is the online obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, June 24, 2019. "Robert Therrien, Sculptor, Dies at 71; He Made the Mundane Monumental; Mr. Therrien’s dining room table was the model for his best-known work: a 10-foot-high replica that let viewers see it from below, as a... Read full biography
Following is the online obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, June 24, 2019. "Robert Therrien, Sculptor, Dies at 71; He Made the Mundane Monumental; Mr. Therrien’s dining room table was the model for his best-known work: a 10-foot-high replica that let viewers see it from below, as a child might. Robert Therrien, whose lifelong fascination with household objects like tables and chairs and pots and pans led him to recreate them as colossal sculptures, died on June 17 at his home in... Read full biography
Following is the online obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, June 24, 2019. "Robert Therrien, Sculptor, Dies at 71; He Made the Mundane Monumental; Mr. Therrien’s dining room table was the model for his best-known work: a 10-foot-high replica that let viewers see it from below, as a child might. Robert Therrien, whose lifelong fascination with household objects like tables and chairs and pots and pans led him to recreate them as colossal sculptures, died on June 17 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 71. The cause was cancer, said Dean Anes, the liaison to Mr. Therrien from the Gagosian Gallery, which represented him. It was in the 1970s and ’80s that Mr. Therrien began drawing and sculpting generic things familiar to him from... Read full biography
Following is the online obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, June 24, 2019. "Robert Therrien, Sculptor, Dies at 71; He Made the Mundane Monumental; Mr. Therrien’s dining room table was the model for his best-known work: a 10-foot-high replica that let viewers see it from below, as a child might. Robert Therrien, whose lifelong fascination with household objects like tables and chairs and pots and pans led him to recreate them as colossal sculptures, died on June 17 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 71. The cause was cancer, said Dean Anes, the liaison to Mr. Therrien from the Gagosian Gallery, which represented him. It was in the 1970s and ’80s that Mr. Therrien began drawing and sculpting generic things familiar to him from childhood: snowmen, keyholes, a coffin, a bird, a chapel, a hat on a stand. Those modest-size, Minimalist works yielde... Read full biography
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Following is the online obituary, The New York Times, by Richard Sandomir, June 24, 2019.
"Robert Therrien, Sculptor, Dies at 71; He Made the Mundane Monumental; Mr. Therrien’s dining room table was the model for his best-known work: a 10-foot-high replica that let viewers see it from below, as a child might.
Robert Therrien, whose lifelong fascination with household objects like tables and chairs and pots and pans led him to recreate them as colossal sculptures, died on June 17 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 71.
The cause was cancer, said Dean Anes, the liaison to Mr. Therrien from the Gagosian Gallery, which represented him.
It was in the 1970s and ’80s that Mr. Therrien began drawing and sculpting gene...But wait, there's more...
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