This Black Edition ‘Big Table’ from the ‘Molar’ series (2007) by Wendell Castle sold at $74,500, within its estimate of $60,000-80,000 in the Phillips Contemporary Art and Design Sale in New York last night.

Crafted in plastic and reinforced with gel-coated fiberglass, the biomorphic shapes in gleaming black are pared right down to the simplest of forms, enhancing Castle’s perpetual exploration of volume and monumental solidity.

His original sixties-era Molar Tables were made in vibrant Pop colors using the molds from a kit car manufacturer in Buffalo, but we think this reissue in black feels more contemporary. “It makes them more modern…there’s such clarity in black” says Castle.

3 from the edition of 8 + 2 artist’s proofs

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