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Robert Breer

Float

1972

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  • Artist Robert Breer (American, 1926–2011)
  • Title Float
  • Date 1972
  • Medium Motorized sculpture: resin, paint, wood, motor, wheels, and battery
  • Dimensions unframed | 17 7/8 x 36 3/4 in.
  • Credit line University purchase, Bixby Fund, and with funds from James W. Singer, Jr.; the Frederic Olsen Foundation; Benjamin Weiss; Bernard Drewes in memory of his father, Werner Drewes; Mrs. James W. Singer, Jr.; Constance Wittcoff; Harald Drewes in memory of his parents, Margaret and Werner Drewes; and Morton D. May, by exchange, 2011
  • Object number WU 2011.0007

The Autonomous Future of Mobility
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 11/02/2020 - 03/12/2021

Moving Parts: Time and Motion in Contemporary Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, 05/09/2014 - 08/31/2014

Robert Breer: A Retrospective
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead, United Kingdom), 06/10/2011 - 09/25/2011
Museum Tinguely AG (Basel, Switzerland), 10/26/2011 - 01/29/2012

4/28/2011
Nathalie Boutin, GB Agency (Paris, France)

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