COLLECTION OF FOUR FLUXKITS Mid-20th Century

COLLECTION OF FOUR FLUXKITS
Mid-20th Century
1) "Games & Puzzles" by George Brecht, circa 1965. Black plastic box with offset label on the cover; contains a wooden bead, a rectangular piece of foam pierced with small circles, and a printed instruction card. 3.5" x 4.75" x .75".
2) "Events" by Takeshita Kosugi, 1964-65. Clear plastic box containing 18 loose offset-printed cards with minimalist text instructions. 3.5" x 4.75" x .5".
3) "Flux Reliquary" by Geoffrey Hendricks, 1970. Clear seven-compartment plastic box with offset label on lid and on underside of lid identifying the various items contained. 3.5" x 4.75" x 1".
4) "Optimistic Box #3" by Robert Filliou, 1969. Wooden box with a checkerboard pattern, brass hardware and printed silver paper labels. Labeled on exterior "Optimistic Box No. 3 so much the better if you can't play chess" and on interior "you won't imitate Marcel Duchamp". Initialed in pencil on interior label. 4.75" x 2.5" x 1.25".

Provenance:
The Peter Hutchinson Art Trust.
Peter Hutchinson.

Notes:
Peter Hutchinson (1930?2025) was a British-born American artist who became deeply immersed in New York's experimental art community. Although he was not a member of the Fluxus movement, he developed close friendships with many of its artists over the years. A regular at Max's Kansas City, the legendary New York gathering place for artists and musicians, Hutchinson met many of these artists there during the 1970s.

His collection of Fluxus and related works grew organically through these relationships. Rather than assembling the works solely as a collector, Hutchinson acquired many of them directly from fellow artists through friendship, exchange and trade. The resulting group offers a personal record of the artistic networks in which he participated, spanning his longstanding connections between New York and Provincetown, Massachusetts. The collection includes works by artists with whom Hutchinson maintained relationships over the course of decades, giving the individual objects a provenance rooted in the informal exchanges and friendships that were central to the experimental art community of the 1960s and 1970s.

Condition
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