Lot 332
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MATTHEW BARNEY | Goodyear: Cremaster 1

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • Matthew Barney
  • Goodyear: Cremaster 1
  • signed and dated 1995 on the reverse of the frame 
  • gelatin silver print, in artist's frame
  • 32 1/2 by 42 1/2 in. 82.6 by 108 cm.
  • Executed in 1995, this work is number 3 from an edition of 6, plus 2 artist's proofs.

Provenance

Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2004 

Exhibited

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Hugo Boss Prize, November 1996 - January 1997
Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Matthew Barney: Cremaster 1, March - June 1998, pp. 62-63, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Emotion: Young British and American Art from the Goetz Collection, October 1998 - January 1999, pp. 96 and 181, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Cologne, Museum Ludwig; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle, June 2002 - May 2003, pp. 122-23, 460 and 510, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Matthew Barney, November - March 2008, pp. 26-27, 47 and 226-227, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Literature

Nancy Spector, Ed., Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle, New York 2003, pp. 122-123, illustrated
Karel Schampers, Ed., Matthew Barney: Pace Car for the Hubris Pill, Rotterdam 1995, pp. 38-39, illustrated
Uta Grosenick and Burckhard Riemschneider, Eds., Art at the Turn of the Millennium, New York 1999, cat. no. 4, p. 60, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. Under very close inspection and with raking light, there are a few very faint linear surface scratches visible. Framed in an artist's frame.
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