Dan Flavin

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Description

Dan Flavin
Untitled (To Don Judd, Colorist) 3
pink and yellow fluorescent lights, in 6 parts
48 by 48 in. 122 by 122 cm.
Executed in 1987, this work is from an edition of 5, of which only 3 were realized, and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Provenance

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Dan Flavin: Hommage à Leo Castelli, 1957-1987, May - June 1987 (another example exhibited)
Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Collection Panza: Dan Flavin, June - September 1989 (another example exhibited)
Stockholm, Galerie Ressle, Minimalism, February - March 1990 (another example exhibited)
Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Un Choix d'Art Minimal dans la Collection Panza, July - November 1990, pp. 48-49, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, Dan Flavin, September 1995 - January 1996 (another example exhibited)
Osaka, Gallery Yamaguchi, Untitleds (To Don Judd, Colorist), October - November 1996 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, Dan Flavin: A Tribute, January - February 1997 (another example exhibited)
North Adams, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Test Site, May 1999 - April 2000 (another example exhibited)
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Dan Flavin: Sculpture, December 1999 - January 2000
London, Serpentine Gallery, Dan Flavin, August - September 2001, pp. 16-17, illustrated (another example illustrated)

Literature

Catherine Francblin, "Dan Flavin," Art Press, no. 116, July - August 1987, p. 80
Madeleine Deschamps, "Dan Flavin: Situations," Art Press, no. 121, January 1988, p. 35, illustrated
Maïten Bouisset,"L'Espace au néon de Dan Flavin," Beaux Arts, no. 90, May 1991, p. 73, illustrated
Paul Warchol, "MASS MoCA," Guggenheim Magazine, Fall 1999, p. 51 & pp. 82-83, illustrated
Lance Esplund, "Lit: Three Artists Sculpting with Light," Modern Painters, no. 1, Spring 2000, p. 108, illustrated
"Fluorescent Light Being Installed," Independent (London), August 23, 2001, p. 1, illustrated
Frank Whitford, "New Lamps for Old," Sunday Times (London), September 2, 2001, pp. 14-15, illustrated
Catherine Croft, "Floor Show," World of Interiors, February 2004, p. 79, illustrated
Michael Govan & Tiffany Bell, Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights 1961-1996, New Haven & London, cat. no. 485, pp. 362-363

Catalogue Note

Three main aspects of Flavin’s works are the fluorescent tube as the source of the light, the light diffused throughout the surrounding space or cast upon nearby surfaces, and the arrangement together or placement upon surfaces of the fixtures and tubes. The lit tubes are intense and very definite. They are very much a particular visible state, a phenomenon.

- Donald Judd