DAN FLAVIN (1933-1996) - photo 1
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DAN FLAVIN (1933-1996)

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$ 250 000
Auction dateClassic
17.05.2024 14:00UTC -04:00
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ID 1209653
Lot 174 | DAN FLAVIN (1933-1996)
DAN FLAVIN (1933-1996)
Flavin, D.
untitled (to Ileana and Michael Sonnabend)
blue, yellow and pink fluorescent light
width: 96 in. (243.8 cm.)
Executed in 1970. This work is number five from an edition of five.




Provenance

Estate of the artist
Private collection, North America
Anon. sale; Christie’s, New York, 9 May 2012, lot 464
Private collection, Switzerland
Anon. sale; Phillips, New York, 17 May 2017, lot 217
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

Collection Sonnabend, exh. cat., Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, 1988, p. 178 (another example illustrated).
La Collezione Sonnabend: Dalla Pop Art in Poi, exh. cat., Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, 1989, p. 114 (another example illustrated).
Passions privées: Collections particulières d'art moderne et contemporain en France, exh. cat., Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1995, pp. 488 and 494, no. 14 (another example illustrated).
G. Celant, Madly in Love: The Luigi and Peppino Agrati Collection, Milan, 2002, p. 378, no. 169.
M. Govan and T. Bell, Dan Flavin, The Complete Lights 1961-1996, New York, 2004, p. 295, no. 262 (another example illustrated).



Exhibited

Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Minimal Art, March-April 1969 (another example exhibited).
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, untitled (to Barnett Newman) 1970 from Dan Flavin, November-December 1970 (another example exhibited).
Toronto, Jared Sable Gallery, Dan Flavin, September 1974 (another example exhibited).



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This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
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