LOT DETAILS
Materials:
pink and green fluorescent light
Measurements:
52.36 in. (133.00 cm.) (height) by 48.39 in. (122.90 cm.) (width) by 4.02 in. (10.20 cm.) (width)
Edition:
2 of 5 of which 3 were fabricated
Exhibited:
Paris,Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Dan Flavin: Hommage à Leo Castelli, 1957-1987, May - June 1987 (another example exhibited) Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Collection Panza: Dan Flavin, June - September 1989 (another example exhibited) Cologne, Galerie Tanit,Dan Flavin: eine Auswahl neuerer Arbeiten, November 1989 - January 1990 (another example exhibited) Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Un Choix d'art minimal dans la collection Panza, July - November 1990, pp. 48-49, illustrated in color (another example exhibited) New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Dan Flavin, September 1995 - January 1996 (another example exhibited) Osaka, Gallery Yamagucki, Untitled (to Don Judd, colorist), October - November 1996 (another example exhibited) North Adams, Museum of Contemporary Art, Test Site, May 1999 - April 2000 (another example exhibited) London,Serpentine Gallery, Dan Flavin, August - September 2001, pp. 16-17, illustrated in color (another example exhibited) New York, Home Alone 2 Gallery, Jimmy Desana and Dan Flavin, September –October 2013
Literature:
Catherine Francblin,"Dan Flavin," Art Press, no. 116, July - August 1987, p. 80 Maiten Bouisset, "L'Espace au neon de Dan Flavin," Beaux Arts, no. 90, May 1991, p. 73, illustrated in color Exh. Cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light, 1999, pp. 82-83, illustrated in color "Fluorescent Light Being Installed," Independent, London, August 23, 2001, p. 1, illustrated in color Frank Whitford,"New Lamps for Old," Sunday Times, London, September 2, 2001, Sec. 9, pp. 14-15, illustrated in color Catherine Croft,"Floor Show," World of Interiors, February 2004, p. 79, illustrated in color Michael Govan and Tiffany Bell, Dan Flavin The Complete Lights 1961-1996, New York, 2004, cat. no. 487, p. 363, illustrated (diagram)
Provenance:
Marisa DelRe Gallery, New York Christie's, New York, November 11, 2004, lot 335 Acquired by the present owner from the above sale