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Felix Gonzalez-Torres

"Untitled" (Last Light)

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Property from an Eminent Private Collection

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

1957 - 1996


"Untitled" (Last Light)

24 light bulbs, plastic light sockets, electrical cord and dimmer switch

overall dimensions variable

Executed in 1993, this work is number 20 from an edition of 24 plus 6 artist's proofs.

Published by A.R.T. Press, Los Angeles and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York


This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Andrea Rosen Gallery and signed by the estate of the artist.


images: © Estate Felix Gonzalez-Torres, courtesy of The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, photo courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

Please note, this work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Andrea Rosen Gallery and signed by the estate of the artist.

Private Collection

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Portraits, Plots and Places: The Permanent Collection Revisited, January 1992 - March 1994 (another example exhibited)

New York, Exit Art/The First World, …its how you play the game, November 1994 - February 1995 (another example exhibited)

New York, Betsy Senior Gallery, A.R.T. Press: Prints and Multiples, January - February 1995 (another example exhibited)

Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Felix Gonzalez-Torres (A Possible Landscape), December 1995 - June 1996 (another example exhibited)

New York, Feature Inc., The Moderns, June - July 1995 (another example exhibited)

Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, Momento Mori, November 1996 - January 1997 (another example exhibited)

Houston, Lawing Gallery, Silence, September - October 1996 (another example exhibited)

London, Cannon Brewery, Blue Horizon, May - June 1998 (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Proliferation, March - June 1999 (another example exhibited)

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Colección Jumex, April - August 1999, p. 14, illustrated and illustrated in color (on the cover) (another example exhibited)

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

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Selections from the Permanent Collection, October 2003 - February 2004 (another example exhibited)

Ecatepec, La Colección Jumex, Killing Time and Listening Between the Lines, March - February 2004 (another example exhibited)

The Art Institute of Chicago, Permanent Collection Installation, 2005 (another example exhibited)

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Vanishing Point: Beauty in Contemporary Art, April - October 2005 (another example exhibited)

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Shadowland: An Exhibition as Film, April - September 2005 (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Blake Byrne Collection, July - October 2005, p. 38, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

The Art Institute of Chicago, Permanent Collection Installation, 2008 (another example exhibited)

Cascais, Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Listen, Darling…The World is Yours, October 2008 - August 2009 (another example exhibited)

Aspen Art Museum, Now You See It, December 2008 - February 2009 (another example exhibited)

Virginia Beach, The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Transformed, July - September 2008, p. 20, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Ecatepec, Galería Jumex, An Unruly History of the Readymade, September 2008 - March 2009 (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, November 2009 - May 2010 (another example exhibited)

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Event Horizon, November 2009 - August 2011 (another example exhibited)

Cambridge, Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Re-View: European and American Art Since 1900, May 2011 - June 2013 (another example exhibited)

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Absentee Landlord, June 2011 - July 2012 (another example exhibited)

Sigean, Lieu D'Art Contemporain Narbonne, Playtime: Works from the Klosterfelde Collection, June - September 2011 (another example exhibited)

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Presentation des collections permanentes, April 2011 - March 2014 (another example exhibited)

The Art Institute of Chicago, Permanent Collection Installation, 2012 - 2013 (another example exhibited)

The Art Institute of Chicago, Felix Gonzalez-Torres in the Modern Wing, July 2011 - January 2012 (another example exhibited)

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, The Inverted Mirror: Art from La Caixa and MACBA Collection, January - September 2012 (another example exhibited)

Philadelphia, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, An Odyssey: A Narrative of The Fabric Workshop and Museum, September - December 2012 (another example exhibited)

Shangai, Electric Fields: Surrealism and beyond - La Collection du Centre Pompidou, December - March 2013 (another example exhibited)

Nuit Blanche Paris, Nuit Blanche 2013, October 2013, p. 43, illustrated (another example exhibited)

Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Lisbon, Culturegest and New York, Artists Space, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, February 2013 - February 2014, pp. 136-137, illustrated in color (volume 1), pp. 64-65 and 142-143, illustrated in color (volume 2) (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Fahrenheit, Far and High, January - April 2014 (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections From the Permanent Collection, February 2014 - April 2015 (another example exhibited)

Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Une histoire - art, architecture et design des années 1980 à no jours, July - September 2016, p. 124, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Unstable Places: New in Contemporary Art, June 2014 - January 2015 (another example exhibited)

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections, October - December 2016 (another example exhibited)

Barcelona, Fundació Suñol, Perfect Lovers. Art in the Time of AIDS, October 2014 - January 2015, p. 6, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Toronto, Scrap Metal, Somebody, Everybody, Nobody, October 2014 - March 2015 (another example exhibited)

Durham, Duke University, Nasher Museum of Art; Columbus, Ohio State University, Urban Arts Space; New York, Columbia University, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and Portland, Lewis and Clark College, Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, February 2015 - December 2016, p. 55, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Barcelona, CaixaForum Barcelona, Hablo, sabiendo que no se trata de eso , October 2015 - February 2016 (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Don't Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA, March - July 2016 (another example exhibited)

Munich, Haus der Kunst, A History. Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou, March - September 2016 (another example exhibited)

Westport Arts Center, MORE Than Words, September - October 2016 (another example exhibited)

Shanghai, Rockbund Art Museum, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, September - December 2016 (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Regen Projects, What I Loved: Selected Works from the 1990s, March - April 2017 (another example exhibited)

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, I am you, you are too, September 2017 - March 2020 (another example exhibited)

New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Minimalism and Beyond, September - October 2017, p. 37, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MACBA Collection. Beneath the Surface, October 2017 - November 2018 (present example exhibited)

Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Hanging Contemporary Collections, 2018 (another example exhibited)

Osaka, The National Museum of Art, The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes, May - July 2018, p. 21, illustrated in color

Osaka, The National Museum of Art, Collection 2: The 1980s Zeitgeist as a Point of Departure, November 2018 - January 2019 (another example exhibited)

Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Hanging Contemporary Collections, 2019 (another example exhibited)

Wakayama, The Museum of Modern Art; Tottori Prefectural Museum; The Tokushima Modern Art Museum and Saitama, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Art Scene: From Rothko and Warhol to Kusama and Basquiat, June 2019 - January 2020 (another example exhibited)

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Points de Recontres, October 2019 - January 2020, p. 101, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Open House: Gala Porras-Kim, October 2019 - May 2020 (another example exhibited)

Bergamo, Palazzo della Ragione, Il Dono. Sulla Vita e La Morte, November 2020 - May 2021 (another example exhibited)

Nivaagaard Malerisamlong, Dahn Vo Presents, July - December 2020 (another example exhibited)

Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, Aspects of Conceptual Art, 2021 - ongoing (another example exhibited)

Osaka, The National Museum of Art, Collection 3: Between Visible and Invisible, March - April 2021 (another example exhibited)

Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: The Politics of Relation, March - September 2021 (present example)

Hong Kong, David Zwirner, The Real World, May - July 2021 (another example exhibited)

Florence, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, American Art 1961-2001, May - August 2021, p. 135, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Osaka, The National Museum of Art, Collection 2: Focus on Contemporary Art from the U.S., France, Germany, and the U.K., November 2020 - January 2021 (another example exhibited)

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Long Story Short: Selections from the Collection, January 2023 - April 2024 (another example exhibited)

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, The Dawn of Darkness: Elegy in Contemporary Art, March - November 2024 (another example exhibited)

Blackpool, Grundy Art Gallery, Flamboyant Flamingos, July - September 2024 (another example exhibited)

Lisbon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Fleeing Intimacies: Surrounding Nan Goldin, October 2024 - August 2025 (another example exhibited)

Sheila Dewan, “Quiet, Please.” Houston Press, 3 – 9 October 1996, p. 45

Dietmar Elger, eds., Felix González-Torres Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997, p. 125, illustrated in color

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, ed., Moment Ginza: City Guide, Stockholm, 1997, pp. 28-29, illustrated

Tania Ragasol, ed. Colección Jumex. San Ángel, Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes/Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil, Mexico, 1999, p. 14, illustrated

James Rondeau, The Art Institute of Chicago: Museum Studies - The Lannan Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1999, p. 84-85

Filipa Sanchez, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, 2006, n.p., illustrated

Natalie Bray and Cara Baldwin, Transformed, Virginia Beach, 2008, pp. 4, 9 and 20, illustrated

Richard Slovak, ed. Now You See It, Aspen, 2008, p. 58-59

“Openings This Week.” Time Out 12-18, December 2008, p. 15

Damien Alexander Williamson, “Now You Don’t.”, Time Out 19-25, December 2008, pp. 8-9

Kyle MacMillan, "You may 'see' it at Aspen Art Museum and still not get it." Denver Post, 23 January 2009

"Best Bets 01.2009.” Aspen Magazine. January 2009: p. 37, illustrated

"Selected New Acquisitions." The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Magazine, Winter 2008 - Spring 2009, p. 36

Will Simmons, "William Tell All: Last Light in Harvard's Sackler Museum. (10/20)." Harvard Independent, 2011 (online)

"Au L.A.C., la rencontre de deux collections." Midi Libre 29 July 2011 (online)

"Principales acquisitions." La revue des musées de France Acquisitions, Paris, 2011, p. 88, illustrated

Jeffrey Grove, and Olga Viso, Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take, Minneapolis, 2013, p. 111

Joseph R. Wolin, ed., Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Los Angeles, 2014, p. 55

ArtAids Foundation, ed. Perfect Lovers. Art in the Time of AIDS, Barcelona, 2014: p. 6, illustrated

Juan Canela, I Speak Knowing it's not About Speaking, Barcelona, 2015, p. 33, illustrated

David J. Getsy, Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender, New Haven, 2015

Julie Ault, ed., Macho Man Tell It To My Heart, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2016, pp. 64-65 and 142-143

Susan Harris and Mary Staniszewski, eds., Exit Art: Unfinished Memories: 30 Years of Exit Art, Steidl, 2016, p. 100

Thomas Gebremedhin, "Three New Shows Celebrate the Work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres" WSJ Magazine, 5 May 2016 (online)

Adair Rounthwaite, Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York, Minneapolis, 2017

Li Qi and Larys Frogier, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Shanghai, 2017

Judith Marks-White, "Imagine That." Westport, CT: Wesport Magazine, 2017, p. 107

Hiroyuki Nakanishi and Hiroaki Suzuki, The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 200 Works with 19 Themes, Osaka, 2018, p. 21

Bona Park, When attitude becomes art, Seoul, 2019

Motoko Okazaki, National Museum of Art Guide 4– Masterpieces from The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, 2019

Bryan Barcena, Open House: Gala Porras-Kim, Los Angeles, 2019, p. 36-39

“Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan News.” National Museum of Art, Osaka, November 2020

Vincenzo De Bellis and Arturo Galansino, American Art 1961-2001, Rome, 2021, p. 135