DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)

Lot 403
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Lot 403 | DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)
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$ 100 000 – 150 000
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)

Tuna

signed, inscribed and dated 'WOJNAROWICZ NYC '83' (lower right)

acrylic and printed paper collage on supermarket poster

43 1/4 x 31 3/4 in. (109.9 x 80.6 cm.)

Executed in 1983.





Provenance

Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner



Exhibited

Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, Investigations Series, June 1985.

Normal, University of Illinois State University, David Wojnarowicz, Tongues of Flame, January-March 1990.

New York, Temple Gallery & Tyler Gallery, EXIT Art, February-March 1991.

Bard, Art Institute, Art What Thou Eat: Image of Food America Art, Eve Blum, September-November 1990.

New York, New York Historical Society, December 1990-March 1991.

New Museum, Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz, January-April 1999.

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 Madam-Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night, July 2018-February 2020, p. 159, pl. 45 (illustrated).



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