Contemporary Art Evening Sale

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Lot 62
  • 62

Dan Flavin

Estimate
1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
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Description

  • Dan Flavin
  • Untitled

  • i) blue, daylight, cool white and warm white fluorescent light
    ii) blue and green fluorescent light
    iii) blue, yellow and pink fluorescent light

  • width of each: 96 in. 244 cm.
  • Executed in 1969, these works are each number 1 in an edition of 5 of which only 2 have been fabricated. Each is accompanied by a certificate signed by the artist.

Provenance

Bruno Bischofberger Gallery, Zurich (acquired in 1969)
Heiner Friedrich Gallery, Cologne

Exhibited

Zurich, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Dan Flavin: fluorescent light, May - June 1969 (i, ii and iii exhibited)
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria; Perth, West Australian Art Gallery; Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales; Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia; New Zealand, City of Auckland Art Gallery, Some Recent American Art, February - November 1974, cat. no. 10 and 11 (i and ii exhibited)
Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst der Öffentlichen Kunstsammlung Basel und der Emanuel Hoffman-Stiftung, Weiss: Skulpturen und Bilder des 20. Jahrhundertes aus der Öffentlichen Kunstsammlung Basel und der Emanuel Hoffman-Stiftung, January - March 2001, p. 39, illustration (i exhibited)
London, Gagosian Gallery, Dan Flavin, February - March 2006, n.p. each illustrated in color and two illustrated in color as installed (i and iii)


 

Literature

Michael Govan and Tiffany Bell, Dan Flavin: the Complete Lights, 1961-1996, New Haven and London, 2004, cat. nos. 212-214, p. 283, illustrated in color