DAN FLAVIN (1933-1996)
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ID 1574496
Los 3 | DAN FLAVIN (1933-1996)
Schätzwert
1500000USD $ 1 500 000 – 2 000 000
the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi)
yellow fluorescent light
96 in. (243.8 cm.) long on the diagonal
Executed in 1963. This work is number one from an edition of three, of which all were fabricated, and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Provenance
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Cologne
Helmut Anton and Margot Kraetz, Dreieich, 1970
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 13 November 1991, lot 116
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner
Literature
D. Judd, “Black, White and Grey,” Arts Magazine, vol. 38, no. 6, March 1964, p. 37 (another example illustrated; titled The Diagonal).
D. Flavin, “’…in daylight or cool white,’ an autobiographical sketch,” Artforum, vol. 4, no. 4, December 1965, pp. 20 and 24 (another example illustrated).
M. Bochner, “Art in Process: Structures,” Arts Magazine, vol. 40, no. 9, September-October 1966, pp. 38-39 (diagram illustrated).
J. Livingston, “Los Angeles. Group, Irving Blum Gallery,” Artforum, vol. 6, no. 4, December 1967, pp. 62-63 (another example illustrated in situ).
Dan Flavin, exh. cat. Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada and The Vancouver Art Gallery, 1969, n.p.
drawings and diagrams from Dan Flavin 1963-1972, exh. cat., St. Louis Museum of Art, 1973, p. 12 (diagram illustrated).
G. Celant, “Dan Flavin,” Domus, no. 519, February 1973, p. 44 (another example illustrated; titled the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Robert Rosenbaum)).
L. Glozer, “Installationen in fluoreszierendem Licht (Installations in Fluorescent Light): Dan Flavin in der Kunsthalle Köln,“ Süddeutsche Zeitung, 17-18 November 1973, p. 99 (another example illustrated).
E. C. Goossen, “Color and Light,” Arts Magazine, vol. 48, no. 4, January 1974, p. 39 (another example illustrated; titled the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Robert Rosenbaum)).
D. Judd, Complete Writings: 1959-1975, Halifax and New York, 1975, p. 119 (another example illustrated).
Dan Flavin: drawings, diagrams and prints 1972-1975, exh. cat., Fort Worth Art Museum, 1977, pp. 19-21 (another example illustrated).
C. Bohdan and T. Volpe, “Collecting Art and Crafts,” Nineteenth Century, vol. 4, no. 3, Autumn 1978, p. 56 (another example illustrated in situ).
I. Burgbacher-Krupka, Strukturen zeitgenössicher Kunst (Structures of Contemporary Art), Stuttgart, 1979, pp. 42-43 (another example illustrated).
Dan Flavin: “monuments” for V. Tatlin, 1964-1982, exh. cat., Otterlo, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, 1985, n.p. (another example illustrated).
new uses for fluorescent light with diagrams, drawings and prints from Dan Flavin, exh. cat., Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden, 1989, pp. 10 and 14.
Dan Flavin: 4 werke in fluoreszierendem Licht aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch, exh. cat., Mönchengladbach, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, 1990, n.p.
Paris—New York, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1991, pp. 783-784 and 790 (another example illustrated).
D. Cameron, “Anxieties of Influence,” Flash Art, vol. 25, no. 164, May-June 1992, p. 79 (another example illustrated).
Territorium Artis, exh. cat., Bonn, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1992, pp. 104-105, no. 43 (another example illustrated).
R. Rosenblum, “Name in Lights,” Artforum, vol. 36, no. 7, March 1997, p. 11.
J. Pissarro, “Dan Flavin’s Epiphany,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin 1997-98, 1998, pp. 84-87 (another example illustrated).
Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light, exh. cat., Berlin, Deutche Guggenheim, 2000, p. 11.
M. Collings, This Is Modern Art, New York, 2000, p. 148 (another example illustrated).
J. Meyer, Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties, New Haven and London, 2001, pp. 2 and 105 (another example illustrated).
R. Cork, “Richard Cork’s Choice: Dan Flavin,” Times, 25 August 2001, p. 27 (another example illustrated).
J. Jones, “How Many Artists Does It Take to Change a Lightbulb,” Guardian, 28 August 2001, p. 11.
C. Darwent, “How I Found Heaven on the Tube,” Independent on Sunday, 2 September 2001, p. 11 (another example illustrated).
C. Thierolf, Amerikanische Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts (American Art of the 20th Century) in der Pinakothek der Moderne, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2002, p. 124, no. 2 (another example illustrated).
Light in Architecture and Art: The Work of Dan Flavin, exh. cat., Marfa, Chinati Foundation, 2002, p. 161 (another example illustrated; titled the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Robert Rosenbaum)).
M. Govan and T. Bell, Dan Flavin, The Complete Lights, 1961-1996, New Haven and London, 2004, pp. 34-35, 37, 52, 73-74, 108-110, 119, 121, 131, 137-138 and 215-216, no. 13, fig. 20 (another example illustrated; diagram illustrated).
P. Feldman and K. Schubert, it is what it is: writings on Dan Flavin since 1964, London, 2004, pp. 240-241 and 288.
Dan Flavin: Rooms of Light. Works of the Panza Collection from Villa Panza, Varese and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, exh. cat., 2004, Varese, Villa Panza, pp. 27-28.
J. Weiss, ed., Dan Flavin: New Light, New Haven, London and Washington, 2006, pp. 35, 50-51, 53, 61, 69, 77-78, 93-96, 98, 112, and 139, figs. 1 and 4 (another example illustrated; diagram illustrated).
Dan Flavin: Drawing, exh. cat., New York, The Morgan Library & Museum and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2012, p. 65, fig. 10 (illustrated).
Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Dan Flavin, exh. cat., Kunstmeseum Basel, 2013, p. 20, fig. 7 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Finch College Museum of Art, Art in Process: The Visual Development of a Structure, May-June 1966.
Los Angeles, Irving Blum Gallery, Paintings and Sculpture from the Gallery Collection, December 1967 (another example exhibited).
Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries and Phoenix Art Museum, Electric Art, January-June 1969 (another example exhibited; titled Yellow Diagonal).
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, December 1986-January 1988, p. 343 (another example exhibited).
Los Angeles, Margo Leavin Gallery, Sculpture: John Chamberlain, Luciano Fabro, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, February-March 1989 (another example exhibited).
New York, Dia Center for the Arts, Dan Flavin: 1962/63, 1970, 1996, May 1997-June 1998 (another example exhibited and illustrated on the front cover).
Buenos Aires, Fundación Proa, Dan Flavin, October-November 1998, pp. 37, 72 and 82 (another example exhibited and illustrated on the front cover).
London, Serpentine Galleries, Dan Flavin, August-September 2001, pp. 4 and 8-11 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; London, Hayward Gallery; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, October 2004-March 2007, pp. 34-35, 37, 52, 73-74, 108-110, 119, 121, 131, 137-138 and 215-216, no. 13, fig. 20 (another example exhibited and illustrated; diagram illustrated).
Vienna, MUMOK museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Dan Flavin: Lights, October 2012-August 2013 (another example exhibited).
New York, David Zwirner, David Zwirner: 25 Years, January-February 2018 (another example exhibited).
Doha, QM Gallery, Dan Flavin Donald Judd, October 2023-February 2024 (another example exhibited).
Kunstmuseum Basel, Dan Flavin: Dedications in Light, March-August 2024 (another example exhibited).
| Künstler: | Dan Flavin (1933 - 1996) |
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| Kunst Stil: | Nachkriegskunst |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Skulpturen, Statuen & Figuren |
| Künstler: | Dan Flavin (1933 - 1996) |
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| Kunst Stil: | Nachkriegskunst |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Skulpturen, Statuen & Figuren |
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