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BRUCE NAUMAN (B. 1941)

Lot 71
27.06.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1250636
Lot 71 | BRUCE NAUMAN (B. 1941)
Estimate value
£ 300 000 – 500 000
BRUCE NAUMAN (B. 1941)
Double Poke in the Eye II
signed and numbered 'B Nauman 5' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
neon and white aluminium box
24 1/8 x 36 x 9 ¾in. (61.2 x 91.4 x 24.8cm.)
Executed in 1985, this work is number five from an edition of forty plus eight artist’s proofs




Provenance

Annual Benefit and Auction Sale, New Museum New York, 15 August 1985.
Private Collection, Connecticut.
Private Collection, Greece.
Thence by descent to the present owner.



Literature

J. Silverthorne, ‘Bruce Nauman: Collaboration’, in Parkett, no. 10, September 1986 (another example illustrated, p. 16).
N. Benezra, et. al., Bruce Nauman: exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonné, Minneapolis 1994, no. 333 (another example illustrated in colour, p. 294).
J.D. Ketner II, Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works of Art, exh. cat., Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, 2006, p. 83, no. 69 (another example illustrated in colour, p. 78).
E. Blume, Bruce Nauman, Berlin 2010, no. 41, p. 212 (another example illustrated in colour, p. 136).
P. Plagens, Bruce Nauman: The True Artist, New York 2014 (another example illustrated in colour, pp. 196-197)



Exhibited

New York, New Museum, Bruce Nauman, 1987 (another example exhibited).
Cologne, Galeries Daniel Buchholz, Multiples, 1987 (another example exhibited).
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Art Against AIDS, 1987 (another example exhibited).
New York, Josh Baer Gallery, Schizophrenia,1987 (another example exhibited).
Cleveland Museum of Art, Illuminations: The Art of Light, 1987 (another example exhibited).
Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art, Digital Visions: Computers and Art, 1987-1988 (another example exhibited, illustrated, p. 144). This exhibition later travelled to Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center; New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art and Miami, The Center for the Fine Arts.
Indianapolis, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Herron Gallery, Welcome Back: Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper by Contemporary Artists from Indiana, 1988 (another example exhibited).
New York, Kent Fine Art, Altered States, 1988 (another example exhibited).
New York, Brooke Alexander Editions, Selected Prints 1960-1989, 1989 (another example exhibited).
Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, Bruce Nauman: Prints 1970-89, 1989 (another example exhibited, illustrated, p. 127)
New York, Hirschl and Adler Modern, Multiples, 1990 (another example exhibited).
St. Louis, Washington University, Steinberg Hall, Bruce Nauman: Light Works, 1993 (another example exhibited).
Zurich, Löwenbräu-Areal, Nauman, Kruger, Jaar: a selection from the Daros Collection and Daros Latin America, 2001-2002, p. 135, no. 27 (another example exhibited, illustrated in colour, p. 53).
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