LOT DETAILS

Materials:

beeswax, wood, oil and human hair

Measurements:

18.86 in. (47.90 cm.) (height) by 14.76 in. (37.50 cm.) (width) by 7.48 in. (19.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 'Robert Gober 1990 Untitled' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Madrid, Galería Marga Paz, Robert Gober, November-December 1990. Berlin, Martin Gropius-Bau, Metropolis: Internationale Kunstausstellung Berlin, April-July 1991, p. 137, no. 56 (incorrectly illustrated). Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Robert Gober, October 1991-March 1992, pp. 8, 23, 61, 77 and 81, no. 10 (illustrated in color and installation view illustrated on the inside front cover). Cambridge, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Corporal Politics, December 1992-February 1993, p. 42 (illustrated in color). London, Serpentine Gallery and Tate Gallery Liverpool, Robert Gober, March-August 1993, pp. 13, 24 and 34-35 (installation view illustrated in color). New York, C&M Arts, Naked Since 1950, October-December 2001, n.p., no. 31 (illustrated in color). New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Pittsburgh, Andy Warhol Museum, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, September 2012-April 2013, pp. 88, 93 and 290, no. 73 (illustrated in color).

Literature:

A.-H. Francois, “Robert Gober,” Voir, December 1991-January 1992, p. 25 (illustrated). N. Bourriaud, "Spotlight: Robert Gober, Clues to Finding the Body," Flash Art, v. XXV, no. 162, January-February 1992, p. 123 (installation view illustrated in color). E. Troncy, “Paris Switch Points/Robert Gober Jeu de Paume," Artscribe, issue 90, February/March 1992, p. 86 (installation view illustrated in color). The Last Days, exh. cat., Seville, Pabello´n de Espan~a, 1992, p. 114 (illustrated). DOCUMENTA IX, exh. cat., Kassel, Documenta, 1992, pp. 198-199 (installation view illustrated in color). B. Sewell, "Penile Dementia," The Daily Standard, 4 March 1993 (illustrated). "If You Go Down to the Park Today..," The Daily Telegraph, 11 March 1993. M. O'Flaherty, "Blinds Come Down for Off-the-Wall Privates on Parade," Daily Express, 12 March 1993 (illustrated). P. Johnson, "This Ugly Blot on a Glorious Landscape: A Bizzare and Unpleasant Intrusion That's Spoiling the Beauty of Spring," The Daily Mail, 13 March 1993. S. Kent, “UnAmerican Dreams,” Time Out London, 17-24 March 1993, pp. 18-19 (illustrated). T. Hilton, “To Wow or Not to Wow?”, The Independent, 21 March 1993 (illustrated). W. Feaver, “Of Couples and Their Cat Litter,” The Observer, 21 March 1993 (illustrated). A. Graham-Dixon, “Insulated from the Shock of Reason, Andrew Graham-Dixon on some masterpieces of English outrage," The Independent, 23 March 1993 (illustrated). W. Packer, “Morbid Modern Message,” The Financial Times, 23 March 1993 (illustrated). J. McEwen, “Dreams Down the Plughole,” The Sunday Telegraph, 28 March 1993. "Gober the Top," Esquire, April 1993 (illustrated). S. Morgan, "Robert Gober," Art Monthly, April 1993, p. 21. B. Sewall, “As You Like It,” Il Giornale Dell’Arte, May 1993, p. 29 (illustrated). "Robert Gober," Liverpool: Scene, June 1993, p. 6. A. Brighton, "Exhibitions: Robert Gober," Modern Painters, Summer 1993, p. 102. E. Cooper, "The Waste of Lives: Art Reviewed by Emmanuel Cooper," Gay Times, August 1993. M. Agassi, "The Incredible Mystery of Robert Gober," Studio: Israeli Art Magazine, no. 47, October-November 1993, p. 28 (illustrated). K.K. Kozik, "Robert Gober", Vytvarné Umení, The Magazine for Contemporary Art, Prague, January-February 1995, p. 72 (installation view illustrated). Rites of Passage: Art for the End of the Century, exh. cat., London, Tate Gallery, 1995, p. 97. Passions Privées: Collections particulières d'art moderne et contemporain en France, exh. cat., Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1995, pp. 647-648 (installation view illustrated). Robert Gober, exh. cat., Umag, Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, 1995, pp. 9-15 and 36. Carnegie International 1995, exh. cat., Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, 1995, p. 86. René Magritte: Die Kunst der Konversation: Marcel Broodthaers, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Bloom, Robert Gober, Sturtevant, exh. cat., Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1996, pp. 224 (illustrated). Apocalyptic Wallpaper: Robert Gober, Abigail Lane, Virgil Marti and Andy Warhol, Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, 1997, pp. 17-18 (installation view illustrated). "Special Feature: Installation," BT Monthly Art Magazine, November 1997, pp. 40-41 (illustrated). Robert Gober, exh. cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1997, pp. 58 and 63 (installation view illustrated in color). Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1999, pp. 20 and 125-126 (installation view illustrated in color). J. Reginato, "The Art of Living," W Magazine, March 2000, p. 505 (illustrated). H. Foster, "An Art of Missing Parts," October, no. 92, Spring 2000, pp. 148-149 (installation view illustrated in color). G. Garrels, "Robert Gober un Américain à Venise," Art Press, June 2001, pp. 52-57 (illustrated). 1, place de la Concorde, exh. cat., Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, 2004, p. 27 (installation view illustrated in color). H. Foster, Prosthetic Gods, Cambridge, 2004, pp. 306 and 331, fig. 8.18 (installation view illustrated). J. Collins, Sculpture Today, New York, 2007, p. 63. T. Vischer, ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, Basel, 2007, pp. 280-281, no. S1990.21 (installation view illustrated in color). Walls Are Talking: Wallpaper, Art and Culture, exh. cat., Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery, 2010, p. 38, no. 28 (installation view illustrated in color). R. Smith, “The In-Crowd Is All Here: ‘Regarding Warhol’ at the Metropolitan Museum,” The New York Times, 14 September 2012, p. C23. Robert Gober: The Heart is Not a Metaphor, exh. cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2014, pp. 171 and 257 (installation view illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Galeria Marga Paz, Madrid Tubacex Collection, Bilbao Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 24 June 1993, lot 98 Klinger Foundation, London Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1996