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DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)

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Lot 408 | DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)

History Keeps Me Awake at Night (For Rilo Chmierlorz)

signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT DAVID WOJNAROWICZ 1986 KÖLN' (on the reverse)

acrylic, spray paint, and printed paper collage on panel

67 x 78 1/2 in. (170.2 x 199.4 cm.)

Executed in 1986.





Provenance

Anna Friebe, Cologne

P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York

Private collection, Colorado

Anon. sale; Christie's New York, 9 May 2012, lot 514

Web Gallery NYC, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Literature

H. Cotter, "He Spoke Out During the AIDS Crisis. See Why His Art Still Matters." The New York Times, July 2018, n.p. (illustrated).



Exhibited

Cologne, Anna Friebe Galerie, David Wojnarowicz, 1986, n.p. (illustrated).

New York, New Museum, Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz, January-June 1999, p. 27 (illustrated).

Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Loisaida: New York's Lower East Side in the '80s, April-July 2014.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia and Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night, July 2018-February 2020, pp. 99 and 202-203 (illustrated).



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