Image: Mark Moore Fine Art, Los Angeles
A brass sculpture by the late Los Angeles artist Robert Therrien, ‘No Title (Keyhole)’ (2003), is currently being offered for resale through Mark Moore Fine Art. The work is from an edition of 13, measures 5 1/2 × 2 × 3/4 inches (14 × 5.1 × 1.9 cm), and carries an owner’s asking price of $15,000. The seller has indicated that the price may be negotiable against a firm offer accompanied by immediate payment.
The availability was circulated in a gallery notice dated August 20, 2026. The notice describes the work as being offered on behalf of a private owner and says that the owner has recently expressed a need for capital. It also states that the sculpture is subject to prior sale and that shipping or viewing expenses, if required, would be additional. The notice does not announce an exhibition or public viewing schedule for the piece.
‘No Title (Keyhole)’ belongs to Therrien’s broader engagement with familiar objects and vernacular forms. Over a career spanning more than four decades, the artist repeatedly transformed everyday subjects—including snowmen, bows, oilcans, tables, chairs and dishes—through changes in scale, material and context. His work often moved between the ordinary and the surreal, making seemingly simple objects appear both recognizable and strangely detached from their original functions.
Therrien was born in Chicago in 1947 and emerged on the Los Angeles art scene in the late 1970s after completing graduate study at the University of Southern California and studying photography at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara. He was represented by Leo Castelli in New York and Konrad Fischer in Düsseldorf during the 1980s and 1990s. His museum exhibitions included presentations at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo.
The resale notice arrives amid renewed institutional attention to Therrien’s practice. The Broad in Los Angeles presented ‘Robert Therrien: This is a Story’ from November 22, 2025, through April 5, 2026. According to the museum, the exhibition brought together more than 120 works spanning five decades, including oversized sculptures and intimate drawings, and examined the artist’s use of scale, memory, material and perception.
The Broad’s presentation included works related to the motifs for which Therrien is best known, such as enormous tables, chairs and stacks of dishes, alongside drawings of snowmen, birds and chapels. The museum identifies ‘Under the Table’ (1994) as the first artwork installed at the institution and continues to present it as part of its general-admission collection display. ‘No Title (Keyhole)’ is not identified in the supplied exhibition information as part of that presentation. The brass work remains available through Mark Moore Fine Art, subject to prior sale.
