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

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996)

Lot 112
01.10.2024 13:00UTC -05:00
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Lot 112 | FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 200 000
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996)
"Untitled"
signed, inscribed, titled, numbered and dated 'UNTITLE [sic], 1988 (VETERANS DAY PARADE) Felix Gonzalez-Torres NYC A/P For Terrain' (on the reverse)
C-print jigsaw puzzle in plastic bag
7 ½ x 9 ½ in. (19.1 x 24.1 cm.)
Executed in 1988. This work is artist's proof number one from an edition of three plus two artist's proofs and one additional artist's proof.




Provenance

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Terrain, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990



Literature

D. Elger, Felix Gonzalez-Torres Catalogue Raisonné, New York, 1997, p. 34, no. 42 (another example illustrated).



Exhibited

Terrain, San Francisco, This Symphony Will Always Remain Unfinished, February-March 1990 (another example exhibited).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, March 1995-June 1996 (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, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, December 1998-January 1999 (another example exhibited).
Dublin, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, December 1999-January 2000 (another example exhibited).
Dijon, Le Consortium, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, November 2001-February 2002 (another example exhibited).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, December 2003-May 2004, pp. 48 and 183, pl. 15 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Long Island City, Fisher Landau Center, Paper, May 2007-January 2008 (another example exhibited).
Coimbra, Portugal, Ellipse Foundation, Centro de Artes Visuais, Edit! Photography and Film in the Ellipse Collection, Part 1, June-September 2007 (another example exhibited).
Long Island City, Fisher Landau Center, Five Decades of Passion Part Two: The Founding of the Center, 1989-1991, November 2009-March 2010 (another example exhibited).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, February-May 2011, pp. 102 and 319 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Long Island City, Fisher Landau Center, Legacy: Selections from Emily Fisher Landau's Gift to The Whitney Museum of American Art, June-October 2011 (another example exhibited).
Belfast, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: This Place, October 2015-January 2016 (another example exhibited).
Art style:Contemporary art
Place of origin:Cuba
Auction house category:Sculptures, Statues & Figures
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