LOT DETAILS
Materials:
ruby-red and cool white neon tubing
Size Notes:
33 x 61.6 x 3.8
Edition:
This work is number three from an edition of six.
Description:
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Markings:
signed for sale. This will usually be where it has guaranteed to the Seller that whatever the outcome of the auction
Exhibited:
Princeton University Art Museum, American Art since 1960, 1970, no. 29 (illustrated). Baltimore Museum of Art, Bruce Nauman: Neons, 1982-83, p. 61, no. 10 (illustrated). Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofi, Arte minimal de la Collection Panza, 1988. Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum; Paris, Musee National d'Art Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou; London, Hayward Gallery; Helsinki, The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Bruce Nauman, 1997-99, p. 44 (illustrated).
Literature:
Bruce Nauman: 1/12-Scale Models for Underground Pieces, exh. cat., Albuquerque Museum, 1981 (illustrated). C. Knight, Art of the Sixties and Seventies: The Panza Collection, New York, 1988, p. 185 (illustrated). C. van Bruggen, Bruce Nauman, New York, 1988 (illustrated in color, p. 153). N. Benezra, et. al, Bruce Nauman: Catalogue Raisonn, Minneapolis, 1995 (illustrated, p. 247, no. 184).Neon Stcke, exh. cat., Hannover, Sprengel Museum, 1998, p. 48.CAPC, Muse d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, The 1970s: Art in Question, October 2002-January 2003, p. 402 (another example exhibited). New York, Van de Weghe Fine Art, Bruce Nauman: Neons, Sculptures, Drawings, October-December 2002, p. 17 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color, p. 31; in situ view illustrated in color, p. 16).J. Gibbons, Art and Advertising, New York, 2005, p. 17.Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, Venice, 53rd International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia, 2009. p. 57 (another example exhibited and in situ view illustrated in color, p. 33). P. Plagens, Bruce Nauman: The True Artist, London, 2014, p 142 (another example illustrated in color, p. 143, fig. 145). Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2018, p. 162 and 306-307 (another example illustrated in color).
Provenance:
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Galleria Sperone, Turin. Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zrich. Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above, 1977). Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 May 2000, lot 53.Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.