Cut and folded grey sheet metal sculpture resembling an abstract, rotund figure

Humpty Dumpty

1973
Metal
One of the sculptures in stainless steel made for an exhibition at the Pace Gallery in 1974. Humpty Dumpty was originally made in aluminum in 1959 but never completed. This was redone in stainless steel and sandblasted fourteen years later.
Original Noguchi Collection
Quotations by Isamu Noguchi from The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987), unless otherwise noted.