
Sold to benefit the New Museum
Double Poke in the Eye II
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November 19, 11:58 PM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Sold to benefit the New Museum
Bruce Nauman
b. 1941
Double Poke in the Eye II
neon on white aluminum box
24 by 36 by 6 ¼ in.
61 by 91.4 by 15.9 cm.
Executed in 1985, this work is number 7 from an edition of 40 plus 8 artist's proofs.
Annual Benefit and Auction Sale, New Museum New York, 18 April 1985 (limited edition donated by the artist)
Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above in 1985)
Acquired as a gift from the above in 2022 by the present owner
Cologne, Daniel Bucholz Gallery, Multiples, 1987 (another example exhibited)
New York, Josh Baer Gallery, Schizophrenia, 1987 (another example exhibited)
Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art; Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center; New York, I.B.M. Gallery of Science and Art; Miami, Center for the Fine Arts, Digital Visions: Computers and Art, 1987-1988 (another example exhibited)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Illuminations: The Art of Light, 1987 (another example exhibited)
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Art Against AIDS, 1987 (another example exhibited)
Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Herron Gallery, Welcome Back, Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper by Contemporary Artists from Indiana, 1988 (another example exhibited)
New York, Kent Gallery, Altered States, 1988 (another example exhibited)
Montreal, La Cité des Arts et des Nouvelles Technologies de Montréal, Images du Futur, 1988 (another example exhibited)
New York, Brooke Alexander Editions, Selected Prints, 1989 (another example exhibited)
Chicago, Donald Young Gallery; Los Angeles, Earl McGrath Gallery; Santa Monica, Pence Gallery, Bruce Nauman: 1970-89, 1989 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Marc Richards Gallery, Multiples, 1989 (another example exhibited)
St. Louis, Washington University Gallery of Art, Steinberg Hall, Bruce Nauman: Light Works, 1993 (another example exhibited)
Ridgefield, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art & The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Bruce Nauman: 1985-1996, Drawings, Prints and Related Works, 1997-1998, pp. 38-39, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
New York, United States Mission to the United Nations, Art in Embassies, 2000 (another example exhibited)
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Penetration, 2002 (another example exhibited)
Milwaukee Art Museum; Indianapolis Museum of Art; North Miami, Museum of Contemporary Art; Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; Victoria, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art; South Brisbane, Queensland Art Gallery, Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light, 2006-2008, no. 69, p. 78, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Venice, U.S. Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, 2009, no. 2, p. 116, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Tel Aviv, United States Embassy in Tel Aviv, Art in Embassies, 2009 (another example exhibited)
Denver Art Museum, Focus: The Figure, 2008-2011 (another example exhibited)
Denver Art Museum, BLINK! Light, Sound and Moving Image, 2011 (another example exhibited)
Jeanne Silverthorne, "To Live and to Die," Parkett, no. 10, Zurich 1986, n.p., illustrated (another example illustrated)
Neal Benezra, Bruce Nauman Catalogue Raisonné, Minneapolis 1995, no. 333, p. 294, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Eugen Blume, Bruce Nauman, Berlin, 2010, no. 41, pp. 136 and 212, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)
Peter Plagens, Bruce Nauman: The True Artist, New York, 2014, pp. 196-197, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)
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