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Property from the Bank of America Collection

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

"Untitled" (Sand)

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Property from the Bank of America Collection

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

1957 - 1996


"Untitled" (Sand)

signed, dated 1994 and numbered 6/12 in pencil (on the reverse of each mount)

portfolio of eight photogravures on Somerset Satin paper in silk covered archival box

each: 6 ¼ by 9 ¼ in.

each: 15.9 by 23.5 cm.

Executed in 1993-94, this work is number 6 from an edition of 12 plus 6 artist's proofs.

Edition Julie Sylvester, New York

LaSalle Bank, Chicago

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, October – November 1994 (another example exhibited)

St. Petersburg, The Museum of the City of St. Petersburg, Edition Julie Sylvester/St. Petersburg: Editions by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mike Kelley, Richard Prince, Sue Williams and David Salle, July 1994 (another example exhibited)

Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Felix Gonzalez-Torres – Roni Horn, May – October 1995, pp. 44-45, illustrated (another example exhibited)

New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea; Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, March 1995 – June 1996, cover, pp. xiv, 38, 88, 114-115, 138, 180, 196, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Passions Privées: Collections particulières d’art moderne et contemporain en France, December 1995 – March 1996, p. 654 (another example exhibited)

Annandale-on-Hudson, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, a/drift, October 1996 – January 1997, p. 12, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Caracas, Museo Alejandro Otero, Sin Fronteras, November 1996 – March 1997, pp. 16, 51, illustrated (another example exhibited) 

New York, Kent, Is There Still Life, September – October 1997 (another example exhibited)

Hannover, Sprengel Museum Hannover; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Felix Gonzalez-Torres, June 1997 – November 1998 (another example exhibited)

Annandale-on-Hudson, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Snapshots, September – December 1999 (another example exhibited)

Stamford, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Contemporary Narratives in American Prints, November 1999 – February 2000. p.1, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Frankfurt, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Paare [Couples]: Gilbert & George and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, September 2000 – March 2001, pp. 36, 54-55 (another example exhibited)

Paris, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, Always Paris, November – December 2000 (another example exhibited)

Baltimore Art Museum, Body Space, February – May 2001 (another example exhibited)

Munich, Museum Villa Stuck, Hautnah: Die Sammlung Goetz, May – August 2002, pp. 40-41, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Mexico City, La Colección Jumex, Theory of Leisure, January – August 2002 (another example exhibited)

Mexico City, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso; Bogotá, Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Edén, March 2003 – July 2004 (another example exhibited)

Paris, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Empreinte Moi: Une Exposition de Philippe Ségalot, October – December 2005, n.p., illustrated (another example exhibited)

New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Skin is a Language, January – May 2006 (another example exhibited)

New York, El Museo del Barrio, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Early Impressions, February – May 2006, cover, illustrated (another example exhibited)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan, September 2007 – March 2008 (another example exhibited)

Annandale-on-Hudson, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Second Thoughts, March – May 2008 (another example exhibited)

Southampton, Parrish Art Museum, SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor, June – September 2008, pp. 4-5, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Selections from the de la Cruz Collection: 2009–2010 Exhibition, 2009 – 2010 (another example exhibited)

Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Selections from the de la Cruz Collection: 2010 – 2011 Exhibition, December 2010 – November 2011 (another example exhibited)

New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, June – September 2010 (another example exhibited)

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts; Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection, February 2011 – May 2012, p. 103, illustrated

Ecatepec, Mexico City, Galería Jumex, Grupo Jumex Centro de Distribución, Destello, April – September 2011 (another example exhibited)

Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Selections from the de la Cruz Collection: 2011– 2012 Exhibition, December 2011 – October 2012 (another example exhibited)

Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Selections from the de la Cruz Collection: 2012 – 2013 Exhibition, December 2012 – October 2013 (another example exhibited)

New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, T. J. Wilcox: In the Air, September 2013 – February 2014 (another example exhibited)

Paris, Galerie Kreo, ce passant considerable, October – November 2013 (another example exhibited)

Miami, de la Cruz Collection, You’ve Got to Know the Rules To Break Them, December 2015 – November 2016 (another example exhibited)

Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Force and Form, December 2017 – November 2018 (another example exhibited)

Miami, de la Cruz Collection, More/Less, December 2018 – November 2019 (another example exhibited)

Miami, de la Cruz Collection, From Day to Day, December 2019 – November 2020 (another example exhibited)

Miami, de la Cruz Collection, A Possible Horizon, September 2020 – 2021 (another example exhibited)

Miami, de la Cruz Collection, There Is Always One Direction, November 2021 – 2022 (another example exhibited)

Miami, de la Cruz Collection, House in Motion/ New Perspectives, November 2023 – 2024 (another example exhibited)

Mexico City, Museo Jumex, Everything Gets Lighter, November 2023 – February 2024, pp. 32-33, 52-53 (another example exhibited)

Tom Folland, “‘In the Field’ at Margo Leavin,” Art Issues, January 1995, p. 44

Christopher Chapman, “Personal Effects: on aspects of work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres,” Contemporary Visual Arts + Culture Broadsheet, issue 25.3, 1996, p. 17

Dietmar Elger, et al., ed., Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit 1997, p. 132, illustrated

Bill Arning, “a/drift,” World Art, vol. 13, 1997, p. 75

Lars Ericsson, "om det Verkliga - fran Datum till Constructum," Index, March/April 1996, p. 73, illustrated

Paul Hoyningen-Huene, “Wissensfortschritt? Fortschritt der Skepsis,” Du Magazin, October 1997, pp. 1.18, 1.36, illustrated

Julie Ault, ed., Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gottingen 2006, pp. 32, 221-223

Suzanne Hudson, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres: El Museo Del Barrio,” Artforum, May 2006, p. 293 illustrated

Patricia Martín, ed., Edén. Ecatepec: La Colección Jumex, 2004, pp. 128-129, illustrated

Karen Rosenberg, "Modern Photography in a Brand-New Space," The New York Times, 28 September 2007

Sarah Schmerler, “Met’s Photo Galleries Make Enlargement,” The New York Post, 25 September 2007

Ken Johnson, “A Celebration of Sand in Vast Quantities or One Grain at a Time,” New York Times, 11 July 2008, p. E32

Benjamin Genocchio, “Celebrating the Beach, Whether in Paint or Sand,” The New York Times, 27 July 2008

Beatrice Luca, Teatro del Sogno Da Chagall A Fellini, Milan 2010, p. 192

Chris Sharp, "Exhibition making in the Anthropocene," Mousse Magazine, October-November 2018, p. 172