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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Dan Flavin

Untitled (for Charlotte and Jim Brooks) 2

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November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Dan Flavin

1933 - 1996


Untitled (for Charlotte and Jim Brooks) 2

red and blue fluorescent lights

7 by 96 by 5 in.

18 by 244 by 12.7 cm.

Executed in 1964, this work is number 1 from an edition of 5 of which 1 was fabricated.


This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Pace Wildenstein, New York
Private Collection
Christie's New York, 15 May 2003, lot 307
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Pace Gallery, Dan Flavin: Colored Fluorescent Light 1964 and 1992, February - March 1992
Houston, Texas Gallery, Untitled (for Charlotte and Jim Brooks) 1964 and Untitled (to Ken Price) 1992, March - May 1993
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; London, Hayward Gallery; Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris; Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, October 2004 - August 2007 (another example exhibited)
St. Louis, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Flavin: Constructed Light, February - October 2008 (another example exhibited)
Madrid, Galería Cayón, Dan Flavin: Homenajes a Artistas, February - April 2018 (another example exhibited)
Buenos Aires, Fundación Proa, Minimalism, Postminimalism, and Conceptualism / 60-70: Dan Flavin, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman and Fred Sandback, July - September 2019 (another example exhibited)
James Meyer, "Dan Flavin," Flash Art, no. 164, May - June 1992, p. 113
Adachiara Zevi, "Dan Flavin's Fluorescent Icons," L'Architettura, vol. 39, nos. 7-8, July - August 1993, p. 568, illustrated
Tiffany Bell et al., Light in Architecture and Art: The Work of Dan Flavin, Marfa, 2002, p. 121, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art and New York, Dia Art Foundation, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, October 2004 - August 2007, p. 125, illustrated in color
Michael Govan and Tiffany Bell, eds., Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961-1996, New Haven, 2004, no. 83, p. 243, illustrated in color and illustrated (diagram) 
Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York, 2016, pp. 102 and 220, illustrated in color (installed in the Four Seasons, San Francisco)
Douglas Fogle and Hannake Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, p. 148, illustrated in color