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BRUCE NAUMAN (b. 1941)

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ID 839018
Lot 163 | BRUCE NAUMAN (b. 1941)
BRUCE NAUMAN (b. 1941)

None Sing Neon Sign

ruby-red and cool white neon tubing

13 x 24 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. (33 x 61.6 x 3.8 cm.)

Executed in 1970. This work is number three from an edition of six.





Provenance

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York.

Galleria Sperone, Turin.

Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zürich.

Private collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above, 1977).

Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 May 2000, lot 53.

Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.



Literature

Bruce Nauman: 1/12-Scale Models for Underground Pieces, exh. cat., Albuquerque Museum, 1981 (illustrated).

C. Knight, Art of the Sixties and Seventies: The Panza Collection, New York, 1988, p. 185 (illustrated).

C. van Bruggen, Bruce Nauman, New York, 1988 (illustrated in color, p. 153).

N. Benezra, et. al, Bruce Nauman: Catalogue Raisonné, Minneapolis, 1995 (illustrated, p. 247, no. 184).

Neon Stücke, exh. cat., Hannover, Sprengel Museum, 1998, p. 48.

CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, The 1970s: Art in Question, October 2002-January 2003, p. 402 (another example exhibited).

New York, Van de Weghe Fine Art, Bruce Nauman: Neons, Sculptures, Drawings, October-December 2002, p. 17 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color, p. 31; in situ view illustrated in color, p. 16).

J. Gibbons, Art and Advertising, New York, 2005, p. 17.

Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens, Venice, 53rd International Art Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia, 2009. p. 57 (another example exhibited and in situ view illustrated in color, p. 33).

P. Plagens, Bruce Nauman: The True Artist, London, 2014, p 142 (another example illustrated in color, p. 143, fig. 145).

Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, New York, Museum of Modern Art, 2018, p. 162 and 306-307 (another example illustrated in color).



Exhibited

Princeton University Art Museum, American Art since 1960, 1970, no. 29 (illustrated).

Baltimore Museum of Art, Bruce Nauman: Neons, 1982-83, p. 61, no. 10 (illustrated).

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofiá, Arte minimal de la Collection Panza, 1988.

Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum; Paris, Musee National d'Art Modern, Centre Georges Pompidou; London, Hayward Gallery; Helsinki, The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Bruce Nauman, 1997-99, p. 44 (illustrated).



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