This is The New York Earth Room, an installation by the New York–based artist and musician Walter De Maria, who died in 2013.

Now, Peter Brandt, who is known for his highbrow, intellectual taste ever since he started with antiquing expeditions in Paris with Andy Warhol in the 60s, has bought it.

Gagosian Gallery presents drawings and sculptures by the American artist Walter De Maria.Diverse works from the first four decades of his career, including the never-before seen Truth / Beauty (1993–2016), is included in his first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom.

Forty years ago, the artist installed 400 stainless steel poles, each about 20 feet high, on a desert plateau in western New Mexico. Gagosian Gallery presenta disegni e sculture dell’artista americano Walter de Maria.Vari lavori risalenti ai primi quarant’anni di carriera, che includono Truth / Beauty (1993–2016), mai visto prima e incluso nella sua prima mostra in Inghilterra. Please try again later. Introduction. WALTER DE MARIA Truth/ Beauty Series (detail), 1993–2016 © The Estate of Walter De Maria. The Lightning Field (1977), by the American sculptor Walter De Maria, is a work of Land Art situated in a remote area of the high desert of western New Mexico. He also took to sports and cars, of which he made drawings. View Hard Core, from the Collection of Ileana Sonnabend and the Estate of Nina Castelli by Walter de Maria on artnet. Browse more artworks Walter de Maria from Alpha 137 Gallery. Exclusive | 421 East 6th Street. Walter De Maria, The Broken Kilometer, Long-term installation at 393 West Broadway, New York City Walter de Maria, The Broken Kilometer, permanent installation in New York City On West Broadway just below Spring Street in Soho. Walter de Maria was born in Albany, California, just across the bay from San Francisco. —Walter De Maria. The people acquired their lands after paying certain sum to the friars and the land became "Lupang Tagalog". The people acquired their lands after paying certain sum to the friars and the land became "Lupang Tagalog". Santa Maria at that time was then called "Santa Maria de Pandi". California-born, New York-based Walter De Maria trained as a painter but soon turned to sculpture, creating early Minimalist works like sparely constructed wooden boxes while exploring media such as performance, film, and music (he was a proto-member of the Velvet Underground). The Lightning Field created by sculptor Walter De Maria is today celebrated as one of the 20th century’s most noteworthy installations of land art.As one of the seminal artists and the founding fathers of land art, Walter De Maria completely revolutionized the way in which audiences perceived art especially during the 1960s, which is when the land art movement was at its peak. Walter De Maria's first academic interest was music—first piano, then percussion. See more ideas about Land art, Installation art and Conceptual art. The gallery’s first step is assisting in establishing a Foundation to oversee his estate and work. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery —Walter De Maria. This week the Dia Art Foundation released the book Walter De Maria: The Lightning Field, an ideal coffee-table book to gift art or nature lovers. Gagosian Gallery has announced that it will represent the estate of artist Walter de Maria, continuing a relationship the artist had with the gallery during his life, showing there several times.