Bruce Nauman

Stephen Kaltenbach and Judith Weintraub, Sacramento
Malcom and Judith Weintraub, Sacramento
Irving Blum, Los Angeles
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
Barbara and Eugene Schwartz, New York
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (gift from the above)
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Acquired by the present owner from the above in May 1985

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Bruce Nauman, January - February 1968, cat. no. 9, n.p., illustrated (LC #9)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Bern, Kunsthalle Bern; Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle; Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum; Milan, Palazzo Reale; Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, Bruce Nauman: Work from 1965 - 1972, December 1972 - July 1974, cat. no. 2, p. 20 and p. 54, illustrated
Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, Artschwager, Judd, Nauman 1965 - 1985, May - June 1985

Peter Plagens, "Roughly Ordered Thoughts on the Occasion of the Bruce Nauman Retrospective in Los Angeles," ArtForum 11, no. 7, March 1973, p. 58, illustrated
Coosje van Bruggen, "Bruce Nauman: Entrance, Entrapment, Exit," ArtForum 24, no. 10, Summer 1986, p. 91, illustrated
Robert Storr, "Nowhere Man," Parkett, no. 10, September 1986, p. 77, illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, Whitechapel Art Gallery (and travelling), Bruce Nauman, 1986, p. 14, illustrated
Coosje van Bruggen, Bruce Nauman, New York, 1988, p. 32, illustrated
Neal Benezra, et. al., Bruce Nauman: Catalogue Raisonné, Minneapolis, 1994, cat. no. 16, p. 195, illustrated

This work is in very good condition. Early in the life of the sculpture, the polyester resin curled along some of the edges and lifted in spots with some associated losses in various areas as follows: Right element as illustrated: three locations along the right edge located from the top at 22 ¾ - 24 ¼ inches, 32 – 32 7/8 inches and 34 ½ - 36 ½ inches from the top. There are also a few minor chips on the bottom right and left edges and along the top left edge 3-4 inches from the top. Left element as illustrated: Along the left edge, 6-7 inches and 37-38 ½ inches from the top and 12 ¼-12 ¾ inches from the bottom. The bottom has some scattered losses in a section 1 ¼ - 7 ½ inches from the bottom. There are also minor losses in the interior located 26 ½-26 ¾ inches and 30 inches from the top.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
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``To construct this piece, Nauman made a long, flat abstract shape out of clay from which he made a plaster mold. This was used twice to cast the fiberglass halves, using pale yellow pigment for one segment and greenish-white pigment for the other. The two parts are displayed propped against the wall in a configuration that Nauman calls a `double reverse pairing.' The importance of its installation is underscored by the way in which the work's dimensions have traditionally been given as those of a right isosceles triangle whose two equal sides are formed by the wall and the floor: 48 x 16 x 48 inches.'' (Bruce Nauman: Catalogue Raisonne, Minneapolis, 1994, p. 195)