Cygan: Robot-about-town goes on sale
//Scrubbing up well. Cygan with auction house assistant. Photo: Christie's//
M.Goldstein’s Nathaniel Lee Jones is on fire at the moment; on the heels of next week’s Reginald Alan Westaway exhibition in Prague, his awesome 9ft-high robot Cygan goes on sale at Christie’s Out Of The Ordinary auction on September 5.
//Cygan was built by Dr Fiero Fiorito, a Turin engineer, in 1957. Photo: M.Goldstein//
Christie’s is holding public viewings of Cygan and the other extraordinary sale items; details here.
Read about Cygan at M.Goldstein and on The History Blog (which describes Cygan as “a robot-about-town”).
The Reginald Alan Westway exhibition opens at Prague’s Svit gallery next Friday. See here.