Keith J. Tabellione (American, 1971-2007)
Headrest
No visible signature.
Patinated steel and bronze, 10 1/2 x 26 x 5 1/2 in. (26.7 x 66.0 x 14.0 cm), on an integral plinth, presented on a tall painted wooden plinth.
Condition: Missing one spike in far right row, minor surface grime.
Provenance: Collection of Robert Bradford Newman (1917-1983), professor of architectural acoustics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and co-founder of Bolt, Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts; purchased from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
N.B. Keith Tabellione graduated from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and won the Fifth Year Traveling Scholars Award. He received the Copley Society of Boston's Student Show Award, the Photography Award, the Sculpture Award, and the Museum School Boit Award two consecutive years, and he was featured on the cover of the Boston Globe Magazine on May 5, 1996.
Tabellione exhibited at the Museum School of Fine Arts, Bernard Toale Gallery, Copley Society, Collusion Gallery, Art Space Gallery, Li'l Red Shack, Seattle, and Julian's of Providence, Rhode Island.
Estimate $1,500-2,000
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