Robert Gober

The Leslie & Johanna Garfield Collection: A Celebration of Prints

Robert Gober

b. 1955

Heat

signed in pencil, also signed in ball-point pen by Joyce Carol Oates (on the justification page of the second volume)

the complete set of two white leatherette diary multiples with lithographic endpapers, each with a metal spring clasp and gilt title on the covers, with text by Joyce Carol Oates, on Saunders wove paper, bound (as issued), contained in the original purple clamshell slipcase

each diary: 8¼ by 5¾ by 1 in. (21 by 14.2 by 2.5 cm.)

overall: 13⅛ by 9⅛ by 2 in. (33.4 by 23.2 by 5.2 cm.)

Executed in 1989; this example is from the edition of 140, published by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

(2 works)

Please note that this lot will not be on view during the sale exhibition. It is located at our Long Island City, New York storage facility. If you would like to examine it in person before the sale please contact Juliette Saylor at Juliette.Saylor@sothebys.com