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March 2, 03:45 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Dan Flavin

1933 - 1996


Untitled

pink and yellow fluorescent light

243.8.by 17.8 by 12.7 cm. 96 by 7 by 5 in.

Executed in 1964, this work is number 1 from an edition of 5, of which 2 were fabricated.


The catalogue raisonné for the artist notes that of the two fabricated works, one, which is the present work, is dated 1964, and the other is dated 1976.


This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Private Collection, France
Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 2013, Lot 168
Acquired from the above by the present owner 
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery; and Cologne, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Dan Flavin: Colored Fluorescent Light, March 1976 - January 1977 (edition no. unknown)
Berlin, Galerie Bastian, Dan Flavin, September 2015 - January 2016 (the present example exhibited) 
Berlin, Daimler Contemporary, Serielle Formationen. 1967/2017, June - November 2017, p. 211, illustrated in colour (the present example exhibited)
London, David Zwirner, Dan Flavin: Colored Fluorescent Light, January - February 2023 (edition no. unknown)
Michael Govan and Tiffany Bell, Eds., Dan Flavin - The Complete Lights 1961 - 1996, New York 2004, p. 331, no. 377, illustrated in colour (edition no. unknown)