LOT DETAILS

Materials:

pink and yellow fluorescent light

Measurements:

24.02 in. (61.00 cm.) (height) by 72.05 in. (183.00 cm.) (width)

Edition:

2 of 3 of which two were fabricated

Description:

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Exhibited:

New York, Kornblee Gallery,Evans, Flavin, Frazier, Levinson, February 1966 (edition no. unknown) Berlin, Reinhard Onnasch Galerie,Dan Flavin, March - April 1985 (the present example) Barcelona, Museu d'Art Contemporani; Serralves, Museu d'Arte Contemporânea,The Onnasch Collection: Aspects of Contemporary Art, November 2001 - February 2002, p. 163, illustrated in color (the present example)

Literature:

Anne Hoene, "In the Galleries: Group Show,"Arts Magazine 40, no. 6, April 1966, p. 55 (text) (edition no. unknown) Lucy Lippard, "New York Letter: Off Color,"Art International10, no. 4, April 1966, p. 74 (text) (edition no. unknown) Mel Bochner, "Less is Less (for Dan Flavin),"Art and Artists 1, no. 9, December 1966, p. 24, illustrated (in installation at Kornblee Gallery, New York, 1966) (edition no. unknown) Mel Bochner, "Serial Art, Systems: Solipsism,"Arts Magazine 41, no. 8, Summer 1967, p. 41, illustrated in color (in installation at Kornblee Gallery, New York, 1966)(edition no. unknown) Exh. Cat., Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada (and travelling),fluorescent light, etc. from Dan Flavin/lumière fluorescente, etc. par Dan Flavin, 1969, p. 249, illustrated (in installation at Kornblee Gallery, New York, 1966) (edition no. unknown) Exh. Cat., St. Louis, St. Louis Art Museum,drawings and diagrams from Dan Flavin 1963-1972, 1973, p. 48 (edition no. unknown) Rosalind Krauss, "Sense and Sensibility: Reflection on Post-60's Sculpture,"Artforum 12, no. 3, November 1973, p. 51, illustrated (in installation at Kornblee Gallery, New York, 1966) (asFrank's Pink Before Gold Across a Corner, 1964-66, edition no. unknown) Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie,Aspekte der 60er Jahre: aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch, 1978, p. 120, illustrated (certificate for the present work) Bernhard Kerber,Bestände Onnasch, Bremen, 1992, p. 149, illustrated in color (the present example) Exh. Cat., Porto, Fundação de Serralves,Onnasch: Aspects of Contemporary Art/Aspectos da Arte Contemporânea, 2001, p. 163, illustrated in color Exh. Cat., Washington, D. C., National Gallery of Art (and travelling), Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, 2004, p. 154, illustrated in color(in installation at Kornblee Gallery, New York, 1966) (edition no. unknown) Michael Govan and Tiffany Bell, Dan Flavin: the Complete Lights, 1961-1996, New Haven and London, 2004, cat. no. 104, p. 249, illustrated in color (artist's diagram) and p. 154, illustrated in color(in installation at Kornblee Gallery, New York, 1966) (edition no. unknown)

Provenance:

Kornblee Gallery, New York Galerie Konrad Fischer, Cologne Onnasch Collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1977) Sotheby's, New York, May 12, 2004, Lot 50 Philips de Pury & Company, London, June 22, 2007, Lot 39A Acquired by the present owner from the above