Lot 76
  • 76

Bruce Nauman

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 EUR
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Description

  • Bruce Nauman
  • Help Me Hurt Me

Provenance

Maud Boreel Print Art, The Hague
Acquired from the above in 1981

Exhibited

Hasselt, Provinciaal Museum, A Choice within a Choice, 1981-1982
Zevenaar, Turmac, 30 jaar Peter Stuyvesant Collectie: Hommage à Spinoza, 1990
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Art Works: International Modern Art in the Industrial Working Environment, an Experiment over more than Thirty Years: Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, 1991–1992
Paris, Grand Palais, SAGA, 1996

Condition

The orange is slightly lighter in tone and with more contrast compared to the catalogue illustration. In apparently good condition apart from a small water stain in upper margin at right (circa 3cm), a very pale stain at left of upper margin, minute, occasional foxmarks along lower sheet edge, stray flecks of ink at upper margin (this is not a defect), very pale paper discoloration along sheet edges, framed (unexamined out of frame).
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Catalogue Note

Lithograph printed in colours, 1975, signed and dated 75 in pencil, numbered 8/20, published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, on wove paper
Image: approx. 81,2 by 122 cm.
Sheet: approx. 90,5 by 128,5 cm.