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Jenny Holzer

Under a Rock: People Go To The River...

Auction Closed

March 1, 09:28 PM GMT

Estimate

70,000 - 100,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Jenny Holzer

b. 1950


Under a Rock: People Go To The River...

misty black granite bench

17¼ by 48 by 21 in.

43.8 by 121.9 by 53.3 cm.

Executed in 1986, this work is number 2 from an edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof. 

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

Camille and Paul Oliver-Offman, Chicago

Sotheby's, New York, 19 November 1997, lot 3

Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Chicago, Rhona Hoffman, Jenny Holzer: Under a Rock, February - March 1987 (another example exhibited) 

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jenny Holzer, December 1989 - February 1990, no. 40, pp. 84-85, illustrated (another example exhibited and illustrated) 

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Take Two: Worlds and Views from the Contemporary Collection, September 2005 - July 2006 (another example exhibited)

New York, Museum of Modern Art, From Line to Plane, June 2010 - April 2011 (another example exhibited)

New York, Skarstedt, Jenny Holzer: Retro, November - December 2010, pl. 11, pp. 22, 27, illustrated in color

Los Angeles, L&M Arts, Jenny Holzer: THE FUTURE PLEASE, September - November 2012 (another example exhibited)

Baseina, PinchukArtCentre, LOSS. In Memory of Babi Yar, 2016 (another example exhibited)

Düsseldorf, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Jenny Holzer, March - August 2023 (another example exhibited)