LOT DETAILS
Materials:
cool white fluorescent light
Measurements:
96.00 in. (243.84 cm.) (height)
Exhibited:
Los Angeles, Museum on Contemporary Art, Inaugural Exhibit, December 1986 - October 1988 (another example) Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection, October 1988 - February 1989 (another example) Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Constructing a History, November 1989 - March 1990 (another example) Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Eloquent Abstraction, July - October 1991 (another example) New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Dan Flavin: Tatlin Monuments, March 1991 (another example) Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Interiors: Some Work from the Permanent Collection, April - June 1994 (another example) Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Images of an Era: Selections from the Permanent Collection, October 1995 - August 1996 (another example) Brussels, Bank Brussels Lambert, Minimal Art, February - May 1998, p. 87, illustrated in color (ed. 3/5) Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Timepieces: Selected Highlights from the Permanent Collection, 1945 - 1975, October 1997 - November 1998 (another example).
Literature:
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945 - 1986, 1986 , p. 185, illustrated in color (another example) Exh. Cat., Santa Barbara, University Art Museum, University of Southern California, Pulse 2: Report on a Phenomenon, 1990, p. 52, illustrated (edition 1/5) Frances De Vuono, "Review: Dan Flavin, Mary Boone Gallery," Art News, 90, no. 7, September 1991, p. 127, illustrated (installation of another example at Mary Boone Gallery) New York, Danese, Dan Flavin: 'monuments' for V. Tatlin, 1997, p. 27, illustrated (another example) Michael Govan and Tiffany Bell, Dan Flavin: the Complete Lights, 1961 - 1996, New Haven and London, 2004, cat. no. 199, p. 279, illustrated (diagram).
Provenance:
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Sotheby's New York, November 11, 1986, Lot 185 Acquired by the present owner from the above