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Robert Edward Therrien

Robert Edward Therrien (1947 - 2019) was active/lived in California, Illinois.  Robert Therrien is 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 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 yielded in the 1990s to larger, more daring sculptures that toyed with perspectives of dimensions and spac   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 7579 characters.]  Artist bio

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