Dan Flavin

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Description

Dan Flavin
Untitled (For Fredericka and Ian 4)
pink, blue and green fluorescent lights, in 5 parts
49 by 67 by 4 in. 124.5 by 170.2 by 10 cm.
Executed in 1987, this work is number 2 from an edition of 5 and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Provenance

Texas Gallery, Houston
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Private Collection
Christie's, New York, September 26, 2002, Lot 804
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 2004

Exhibited

Houston, Texas Gallery, Dan Flavin, April 1987
Santa Monica, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Dan Flavin: Selected Works, December 1990 - January 1991, n.p. checklist no. 4, illustrated (captioned with incorrect colors)
Madrid, Theospacio, Presencias Dos Mil: Minimal Art, June - September 1990, n. p., illustrated

Literature

Michael Govan & Tiffany Bell, Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights 1961-1996, New Haven & London, 2004, cat. no. 473, p. 359, illustrated

Catalogue Note

Pure light and pure color are strange, intractable materials, both seductive and confusing ...yet there is undoubtedly a powerful fascination [with] a common industrial material…that has until recently stood for the most common aspects of a flashy advertising culture – may now realize a different potential in its symbolic capacity to arouse emotional response, and, in the hands of artists, transcend its materiality. It retains, after all, a hint of the age-old magic and attraction of fire or the sun – or of brightness in any form, signifying warmth, mystery, life.

- Elisabeth C. Backer ("The Light Brigade", Art News, vol. 66, no. 1, March 1967, p. 52)