LOT DETAILS

Materials:

plaster, wire lath, wood, semi-gloss enamel paint

Measurements:

27.99 in. (71.10 cm.) (height) by 18.46 in. (46.90 cm.) (width) by 11.50 in. (29.20 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'Robert Gober 1985' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

New York, Jus de Pomme Gallery, Artists Pick Artists, November 1984. Staten Island, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Blood Remembering, October 1990-January 1991. Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Palazzo delle Albere, American Art of the 80's, December 1991-March 1992, p. 51, no. 13 (illustrated in color). CECUT Centro Cultural Tijuana and San Diego Museum of Art, Farsites-Urban Crisis and Domestic Symptoms in Recent Contemporary Art-inSite_05, August-November 2005, pp. 112 and 203 (illustrated in color). Miami, Bass Museum of Art and Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, Where do we go from here? , December 2009-January 2011, pp. 44-45 and 47 (illustrated in color). London, Saatchi Gallery, Post Pop: East Meets West, November 2014-February 2015, p. 88 (illustrated in color)

Literature:

T. Vischer, ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007 , Basel, 2007, pp. 96-97 and 156, no. S1985.10 (illustrated). An Unruly History of the Readymade , exh. cat., Mexico City, Colección Jumex, 2008, p. 114 (illustrated in color)

Provenance:

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998