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CHARLES RAY (B. 1953)

Lot 113
17.11.2022 20:00UTC -05:00
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ID 842807
Lot 113 | CHARLES RAY (B. 1953)
Estimate value
$ 3 000 000 – 5 000 000
CHARLES RAY (B. 1953)

Revolution Counter Revolution

carved wood, steel, fabric and mechanical elements

115 x 164 x 164 in. (292.1 x 416.6 x 416.6 cm.)

Executed in 1990. This work is unique.





Provenance

Galleria Franz Paludetto, Turin

Private collection, Italy

Anon. sale; Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 16 November 2006, lot 22

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

Charles Ray, exh. cat., Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1990, p. 33 (illustrated).

C. Knight, "Sculptor Takes Himself Out of Picture," Los Angeles Times, 5 August 1990.

Charles Ray, exh. cat., Malmo, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, 1994.

Au-delà spectacle, exh. cat., Paris, Centres Georges Pompidou, 2000, p. 37 (illustrated).

P. Ritter, "Too Much Joy," Citypages, vol. 21, no. 1007, 22 March 2000.

J. Ranciere, The Emancipated Spectator, London, 2008.

R. Smith, "Anti-Mainstream Museum's Mainstream Show," New York Times, 5 March, 2010, p. C21.

J. Saltz, "Less Than the Sum of Its Parts," New York Magazine, 25 March 2010 (installation view illustrated).

DESTE 33 Years: 1983-2015, exh. cat., DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, 2015, p. 490 (installation view illustrated).

J. Kraynak, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life, Berkeley, 2020, pp. 132-133, fig. 3.4 (illustrated).

Charles Ray, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou and Bource de Commerce, 2022, p. 180 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Los Angeles, Burnett Miller Gallery, Charles Ray, November 1990.

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Portland Art Museum; Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Centres Georges Pompidou; Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo; Miami Art Museum, Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures, July 2000-November 2001, p. 146, no. 59 (illustrated)

Turin, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, January 1999-December 2003 (on loan).



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