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Felix González-Torres

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Félix González-Torres
  • Untitled (Sand)

  • each signed, dated 1994 and numbered 11/12 on the reverse

  • portfolio of 8 photogravures on Somerset Satin paper, in silk-covered archival box

  • Each Photogravure: 12 1/2 by 15 1/2 in. 31.8 by 39.4 cm.
  • Executed in 1993-1994, this work is number 11 from an edition of 12 plus 6 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above in 1994

Exhibited

Museum of the City of St. Petersburg, Edition Julie Sylvster/ St. Petersburg: Editions by Mike Kelley, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Richard Prince, Sue Williams, David Salle, July 1994 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, October - December 1994 (another example exhibited)
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea; ARC-Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Felix Gonzalez-Torres, March 1995 - September 1996, cover & pp. xiv, 38, 88, 114-115, 138, 180 and 196, illustrated individually (another example exhibited)
Annondale-on-Hudson, Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, A/Drift, October 1996 - January 1997 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Skin is a Language, January - May 2006 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Charles Merewether, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres: El pasado por venir", Atlantica International, Winter 1994/1995, pp. 40-41 and 148, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Munich, Akademie der Bildende Kunst, Felix Gonzalez-Torres/ Roni Horn, 1995, pp. 44-45, illustrated 
Lars O. Ericsson, "om det Verkliga - fran Datum till Constructum", Index, March/ April 1996, p. 73, illustrated (two images only)
Dietmar Elger, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997, no. 264, p. 132, illustrated
Julie Ault, ed., Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Göttingen, 2006, pp. 221-223, illustrated

Catalogue Note

Please note, Felix González-Torres has been selected to represent the United States of America in the forthcoming Biennale Internazionale d’arte, Venezia, 52nd International Art Exhibition June 10 – November 27, 2007.