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Bruce Nauman

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Description

  • Bruce Nauman
  • Untitled (Crossbeams)

  • one element inscribed with the artist's initials and numbered 5/25; one element inscribed with the artist's signature and numbered 5/25

  • cast iron sculpture with grit blast finish, in 2 parts
  • 5 1/8 by 86 1/8 by 5 in. 13 by 218.8 by 12.7 cm.
  • Executed in 1983-1986, this work is one from an edition of 25, plus 8 artist's proofs, 2 publisher's proofs, 1 Gemini impression and 1 dedication proof.

Provenance

Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above in May 1989

Exhibited

New York, Castelli Graphics; New York, Lorence-Monk Gallery; Chicago, Donald Young Gallery; Los Angles, Earl McGrath Gallery; Santa Monica, Pence Gallery, Bruce Nauman: 1970-89, September - October 1989 (another example exhibited)
New York, Brooke Alexander Editions, Selected Multiples, March - May 1989, no. 175 (another example exhibited)
Southampton, The Parrish Art Museum, Representing: A Show of Identities, March - April 2000 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Christopher Cordes, ed., Bruce Nauman Prints 1970-1989, New York, 1989, p. 128, illustrated
Neal Benezra, et. al., Bruce Nauman: Catalogue Raisonné, Minneapolis, 1994, cat. no. 373, p. 306, illustrated