LOT DETAILS

Materials:

cool white fluorescent light

Measurements:

95.98 in. (243.80 cm.) (height) by 20.00 in. (50.80 cm.) (width)

Edition:

3 of 5; of which three were fabricated

Description:

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Exhibited:

Los Angeles, MoCA Temporary Contemporary; Washington, D. C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Bordeaux, CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain; Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller,'monument' for V. Tatlin from Dan Flavin,1964-1983, April 1984 - January 1986, pl. 45, illustrated (edition no. unknown) Basel, Galerie Beyeler, Traum vom Absoluten/Dream of the Absolute, June - September 1994, p. 53, illustrated in color (titledUntitled (Monument 1 for V. Tatlin))(edition no. unknown) New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery,Luciano Fabro, Dan Flavin, Mario Merz, Pino Pascali, September - October 1995 (edition no. unknown) New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery,Sculpture, February - March 2003 (edition no. unknown) New York, PaceWildenstein,Summer Travels, July - September 2003 (the present example) New York, PaceWildenstein,Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, February - March 2005, p. 45, illustrated (the present example) East Hampton, Guild Hall,Dan Flavin: An Intimate View, June - July 2007 (the present example) New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery,Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, Mario Merz, September - October 2010

Literature:

Exh. Cat., Lausanne, FAE Musée d'art contemporain,Selection: oeuvres de la collection, 1991, p. 61, illustrated in color (titledUntitled (Monument 1 for V. Tatlin)) (another example) Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution,The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions, 1992-1996, 1997, cat. no. 47, p. 36, illustrated (another example) Exh. Cat., Rio de Janeiro, Centro Cultural Light,Dan Flavin, 1998, p. 16, illustrated (the present example) Michael Govan and Tiffany Bell,Dan Flavin: the Complete Lights,1961-1996, New Haven and London, 2004, cat. no. 142, p. 262, illustrated(artist's diagram) David Cohen, "Arts & Letters - Gallery Going: When the Rule Ruled,"New York Sun, March 3, 2005, p. 19 (the present example) Jane Harris, "The ruling class: Seeking the poetic potential of neutral signs,"New York Village Voice, March 16-22, 2005, p. 8 (Voices Choices), illustrated (the present example) Holland Cotter, "Art in Review: 'Logical Conclusions,'"The New York Times, March 18, 2005, p. E42, illustrated (the present example)

Provenance:

PaceWildenstein, New York Sotheby's, New York, May 9, 2009, Lot 28 Acquired by the present owner from the above