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Sold to Benefit the ICA on its 75th Anniversary

Robert Gober

Rat Bait

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Sold to Benefit the ICA on its 75th Anniversary

Robert Gober

b. 1954

Rat Bait


signed, titled, dated 1992 and numbered 1/10 on the reverse

casein and silkscreen ink on cast plaster

23.2 by 15.6 by 5 cm. 9⅛ by 6⅛ by 2 in.

Donated by the artist

Exh Cat., Umag, Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Robert Gober: Come, Come Into The Traumatic Space of Reality, 1995, p. 27, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly, Eds., Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art No. 1, New York 1996, p. 109, illustrated in colour; and p. 110, illustrated (installation view) (edition no. unknown)

Paul Schimmel, 'Gober is in the Details', in: Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Geffen Contemporary, Robert Gober, 1997, n.p., illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Catrin Lundqvist, Ed., 'Robert Gober', in: Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Wounds: Mellan Demokrati och Förlösning I Samtida Konst [Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art], 1998, p. 128, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

James Romaine, 'Closer to Heaven: The Art of Robert Gober', IMAGE: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Autumn 2000, pp. 30-1, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Robert Haywood, 'Robert Gober's Virgin and Drain', Thresholds, No. 23, Autumn 2001, pp. 41-2, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

George Howell, 'Object/Installation: The Two Sides of Robert Gober', Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 5, June 2001, p. 43, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

Hal Foster, Prosthetic Gods, Cambridge 2004, p. 332 (text); and p. 333, illustrated in colour (installation view)

Theodora Vischer, Ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, Basel 2007, pp. 308, 310 and 316-17, no. S 1992.04, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)

New York, Dia Center for the Arts, Robert Gober, September 1992 - June 1993, p. 57, illustrated in colour (installation view) (edition no. unknown)

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Into a New Museum: Recent Gifts and Other Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Part II, May - October 1995 (edition no. 4/10 exhibited)

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Malmö, Rooseum Center; Washington, Hirshhorn Museum; and San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawings, February 1999 - September 2000, p. 23, illustrated in colour (installation view) (edition no. unknown)

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection, July 2004 - February 2005 (edition no. 4/10 exhibited)

Houston, The Menil Collection, Robert Gober: The Meat Wagon, October 2005 - January 2006, pp. 16, 27, 32, 37 and 49, illustrated in colour (installation view) (edition no. unknown)

Basel, Schaulager, Robert Gober: Work 1976-2007, May - October 2007 (edition no. unknown)