Lot 146
  • 146

DAN FLAVIN | Untitled (To Pat and Bob Rohm)

Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
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Description

  • Dan Flavin
  • Untitled (To Pat and Bob Rohm)
  • red, yellow and green fluorescent light
  • 96 by 24 by 8 in. 243.8 by 61 by 20.3 cm.
  • Executed in 1973, this work is number 2 from an edition of 5.This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Provenance

John Weber Gallery, New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Texas
Private Collection
Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 8 March 2012, Lot 11
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, John Weber Gallery, more circular fluorescent light, etc., from Dan Flavin, February - March 1973 (another example exhibited)

Literature

Exh. Cat., Karlsruhe, Museum für neue Kunst, Minimal Art aus den Sammlungen FER, Froehlich und Siegfried Weishaupt, March - April 2001, p. 109 (another example exhibited)
Michael Govan and Tiffany Bell, Eds., Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961-1996, New Haven 2004, cat. no. 325, p. 317, illustrated 

Condition

This work is in very good and sound condition overall. All electrical components are in good working order. There is evidence of wear and handling to the edges. The bottom half of the white metal section is slightly soiled.
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Catalogue Note

“Three main aspects of Flavin’s work are the fluorescent tubes as the source of light, the light diffused throughout the surrounding space or cast upon nearby surfaces, and the arrangement together or placement upon surfaces of the fixtures and tubes. The lit tubes are intense and very definite. They are very much a particular visible state, a phenomenon. The singleness of isolation of phenomena is new to art and highly interesting.”
Donald Judd in Exh. Cat., Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, flourescent light, etc. from Dan Flavin, p. 27