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Robert Gober

Hanging Man/Sleeping Man

Lot Closed

June 21, 02:20 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Gober

b. 1954


Hanging Man/Sleeping Man

signed (lower right)

hand-printed silkscreen on paper

installation dimensions variable 

installed: 25½ by 75½ in.

64.8 by 191.8 cm.

Executed in 1989, this work is from an edition of unknown size.

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 2004 by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen and Kunsthalle Bern, Robert Gober, 1990, pp. 79-81 (another example illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte, Robert Gober, 1992, pp. 32-36 (another example illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Paul Gober, 1997, p. 47 (another example illustrated)

Exh. Cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Malmo, Sweden, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, 1999, p. 16 (another example illustrated)

Theodora Vischer, ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, vol. 1, Basel, 2007, p. 235 (another example illustrated)

Elissa Auther, “Wallpaper, the Decorative, and Installation Art” in Extra/Ordinary: Craft and Contemporary Art, Durham and London, 2011, pp. 124-125 (another example illustrated)