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Lot 407
  • 407

Bruce Nauman

Estimate
180,000 - 250,000 USD
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Description

  • Bruce Nauman
  • Double Poke in the Eye II
  • signed on a paper affixed to the upper surface
  • neon and white aluminum box
  • 24 by 36 by 6 1/4 in. 61 by 91.4 by 15.9 cm.
  • Executed in 1985, this work is number 38 from an edition of 40 plus 8 artist's proofs, published by Brooke Alexander, Inc. to benefit the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Provenance

Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York
Kent Fine Art, New York
Sotheby's, New York, November 18, 1999, lot 261
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Art Against AIDS, June 1987 (another example exhibited)
New York, Josh Baer Gallery, Schizophrenia, September 1987 (another example exhibited)
Cologne, Daniel Buchholz, Multiples, September - October 1987 (another example exhibited)
Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art; Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center; New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art; Miami, The Center for the Fine Arts, Digital Visions: Computers and Art, September 1987 - September 1988, p. 144 (another example exhibited)
Cleveland Museum of Art, Illuminations: The Art of Light, September - December 1987 (another example exhibited)
Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Herron Gallery, Welcome Back: Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper by Contemporary Artists from Indiana, January - February 1988  (another example exhibited)
New York, Kent Fine Art, Altered States, April - May 1988
New York, Brooke Alexander Editions, Selected Prints 1960-1989, March - May 1989 (another example exhibited)
Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, Bruce Nauman: Prints 1970-89, September - October 1989, p. 127 (another example exhibited)
New York, Hirschl and Adler Modern, Multiples, May - June 1990 (another example exhibited)
St. Louis, Washington University, Steinberg Hall, Bruce Nauman: Light Works, January - March 1993 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Jeanne Silverthorne, "Bruce Nauman: Collaboration," Parkett, no. 10, September 1986, p. 16, illustrated in color
Neal Benezra, et. al., Bruce Nauman: exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonné, Minneapolis, 1994, no. 333, p. 294, illustrated in color
J.D. Ketner II, Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works of Art, Milwaukee, 2006,  no. 69, p. 78, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition and in good working order. There are scattered fine linear abrasions on the neon tubing and scattered accretions on the white casing. Otherwise there are no apparent condition problems with this work.
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