Lot 455
  • 455

Bruce Nauman

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Bruce Nauman
  • Violent Incident: Man - Woman, Segment
  • signed and numbered 10 on a label affixed to the videotape
  • video with audio

  • duration: 30 min.
  • Executed in 1986, this work is number 10 from an edition of 200, plus 20 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Parkett Editions, Zurich
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

Rein Wolfs, "Nauman: Director of Violent Incidents," Parkett, No. 10, September 1986, pp. 43 and 46, illustrated on the cover and inside cover
Coosje van Bruggen, Bruce Nauman, New York, 1988, p. 192, illustrated in color
Joan Simon, ed., Bruce Nauman, Minneapolis, 1994, no. 361, p. 302, illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, Hayward Gallery [and traveling], Bruce Nauman, 1997, p. 105, illustrated
Janet Kraynak, ed., Please Pay Attention: Bruce Nauman's Words, Writings and Interviews, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003, fig, 2.6, p. 97, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Tate Liverpool, Bruce Nauman: Make Me Think Me, 2006, p. 66, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good working order. The original VHS tape has been copied to a DVD and will be sold with the lot.
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