Lot 509
  • 509

Roni Horn

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Roni Horn
  • When Dickinson Shut Her Eyes - For Felix; No. 352
  • stamped with the number 352 at one end of each bar
  • plastic and aluminum, in 7 parts
  • Smallest: 53 1/2 by 2 by 2 in. 135.9 by 5.1 by 5.1 cm.
  • Largest: 69 by 2 by 2 in. 175.3 by 5.1 by 5.1 cm.
  • Executed in 1993, this work is from an edition of 3.

Provenance

Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Exhibited

New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Roni Horn, September - October 1993
Saint Louis Art Museum, Roni Horn, February - April 1995

Literature

ARTnews, December 1993, Vol. 92, no. 12, p. 128, illustrated
Currents 61, Saint Louis Art Museum, 1995, illustrated on the cover
"Art Is A Thing With Ideas,"  St. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 23, 1995, illustrated
The Sciences, November/December 1997, p. 27, illustrated

Condition

This work is in good condition overall. There is scattered unobtrusive spot pitting evident primarily in the black lettering. There are scattered nicks and abrasions. There is evidence of scattered inpainting on the plastic inlay.
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Catalogue Note

Perhaps I asked too large -
I take - no less than skies -
For Earths, grow thick as
Berries, in my native town -

My basket holds - just - Firmaments -
Those - dangle easy - on my arm,
But smaller bundles - Cram.

- Emily Dickinson, "Perhaps I Asked Too Large"