FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996) - photo 1
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996) - photo 2
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996) - photo 3
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996) - photo 4

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996)

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Lot 2 | FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 200 000
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996)
Gonzalez-Torres, F.
"Untitled" (Paris, Last Time, 1989)
signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'Felix Gonzalez-Torres Untitled (Paris, last time, 1989) 1989, NYC' (on the reverse)
C-print jigsaw puzzle in plastic bag
7 ½ x 9 ½ in. (19.1 x 24.1 cm.)
Executed in 1989. This work is number three from an edition of three plus one artist's proof.




Provenance

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1995



Literature

L. Cottingham, Letter to Oscar Wilde, Blocknotes, no. 5, Winter 1993/1994, p. 43 (another example illustrated).
T. Weski et al., eds., Konstruktion Zitat: Kollektive Bilder in her Fotographie, Hannover, 1993, p. 76 (another example illustrated).
N. Spector, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, New York, 1995, p 80.
R. Storr, "Setting Traps for the Mind and Heart," Art in America, vol. 84, no. 1, January 1996, p. 72 (another example illustrated).
G. Meir, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres 1957-1996," Studio, April/May 1996, p. 36 (another example illustrated).
D. Elger, Felix Gonzalez-Torres Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997, p. 39, no. 55 (another example illustrated).
A. D. Pasquale, As Time Goes By: History, Memory, and Sentimentality, New York, 1997, pp. 18-20 (another example illustrated).
C. M. George, “You Can Take It With You.” POZ., December, 1998 pp. 68-71.
K. Johnson, “Innuendo at Dee/Glasoe.” New York Times, 7 July 2000.
J. Ault, ed., Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gottingen, 2006, pp. 27.
J. Blessing and N. Trotman. Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance. New York, 2010 pp. 57-65 (another example illustrated).
A. L. Cué and B. Katnira, eds. Félix González-Torres: Somewhere/Nowhere, Ciudad, 2010, p 84.



Exhibited

New York, Massimo Audiello Gallery, Loving Correspondence, June 1990 (another example exhibited).
San Francisco, Terrain, A Celebration, February-March 1992 (another example exhibited).
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Konstruktion Zitat: Kollektive Bilder in der Fotographie, August-October 1993, p. 76 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Smithsonian Institution, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Traveling, April-September 1994 (another example exhibited).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea and ARC-Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, March 1995-June 1996, p. 80 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Stamford, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, As Time Goes By: History, Memory and Sentimentality, June-August 1997, pp. 18-20 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Sprengel Museum Hannover; Switzerland, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and Vienna, Museum Moderner Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, June 1997-November 1998 (another example exhibited).
Long Island City, Fisher Landau Center, Shared Vision: Photographs from the Collection of Emily Fisher Landau and Anne E. and M. Anthony Fisher, October 1998-November 1999 (another example exhibited).
New York, Dee Glasoe, Innuendo, June-July 2000 (another example exhibited).
Long Island City, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Paper, May 2007-January 2008 (another example exhibited).
Long Island City, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Five Decades of Passion Part Two: The Founding of the Center, 1989-1991, November 2009-March 2010 (another example exhibited).
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Selections from the de la Cruz Collection: 2009-2010 Exhibition, December 2009-November 2010.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, March-September 2010, p.65 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Selections from the de la Cruz Collection: 2010-2011 Exhibition, December 2010-November 2011.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, February-May 2011, pp. 100, 104 and 320 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Long Island City, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Legacy: Selections from the Emily Fisher Landau's Gift to The Whitney Museum of American Art, June-October 2011 (another example exhibited).
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Selections from the de la Cruz Collection: 2011-2012 Exhibition, December 2011-October 2012.
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Selections from the de la Cruz Collection: 2012-2013 Exhibition, December 2012-October 2013.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, America is Hard to See, May-September 2015 (another example exhibited).
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Force and Form, December 2017-November 2018.
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, More/Less, December 2018-November 2019.
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, From Day to Day, December 2019-September 2020.
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, A Possible Horizon, September 2020-November 2021.
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, There Is Always One Direction, November 2021-November 2022.
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, Together, at the Same Time, November 2022-November 2023.
Miami, de la Cruz Collection, House in Motion / New Perspectives, December 2023-March 2024.
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