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)

Lot 14
14.05.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1426164
Lot 14 | FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 700 000
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996)
"Untitled" (March 5th) #2
light bulbs, porcelain light sockets and electrical cords
height: 113 in. (287 cm.)
Executed in 1991. This work is number three from an edition of twenty plus two artist's proofs and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.




Provenance

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Private collection, New York
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2009



Literature

N. Macel, 15 Artistas Cubanos, exh. cat., Mexico City, Ninart Centro de Cultura, 1991, pp. 11 and 36 (another example illustrated).
N. Spector, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Roni Horn, exh. cat., Munich, Sammlung Goetz, 1995, pp. 12 and 20.
C. Chapman, "Personal Effects: On Aspects of Work by Felix Gonzalez-Torres," BROADsheet, Spring 1996, pp. 16-17 (another example illustrated).
J.-M. Prévost, Propositions, exh. cat., Musée Departmental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, 1996, pp. 10 and 84.
J.-F. Poirier, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres," Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1997, pp. 477-478.
D. Elger, ed., Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997, no. 118, pp. 69 and 163 (another example illustrated).
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, exh. cat., Montevideo, Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, 2000, p. 10.
M. Barrero, Comer o no Comer, exh. cat., Centro de arte de Salamanca, 2002-2003, p. 47.
J. Ault, ed., Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Göttingen, 2006, no. 2, pp. 89, 260, 360 and 373 (another example illustrated).
F. Wagner, ed., Felix Gonzalez-Torres, exh. cat., Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, 2006, pp. 32 and 50.
M. Escalante, Las Implicaciones de la Imagen, exh. cat., Mexico City, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, 2008, no. 25, p. 234 and 193 (another example illustrated, incorrectly titled Untitled No. 2).
N. Bray and C. Baldwin, Transformed, exh. cat., Virginia Beach, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, 2008, pp. 9, 20 and 21 (another example illustrated).
M. Torp. Reality Check, exh. cat., Copenhagen, Statens Museum for Kunst, 2008, p. 90.
J. Rondeau and A. Rorimer, Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection: Minimal and Postminimal Innovation, exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago, 2011, pp. 59 and 156 (another example illustrated).
D. Ades, Tate Latin American Acquisitions Committee: Celebrating 10 Years. New York, 2011, pp. 34-35 (illustrated).
A. Searle, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres: holding a mirror up to love and loss," The Guardian, 27 May 2016, n.p. (another example illustrated).
M. Mclean, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres," Frieze, no. 181, September 2016, pp. 168-169 (another example illustrated).
P. Griffith, "Felix Gonzalez-Torres," The Brooklyn Rail, June 2017.
J. Chambers-Letson, After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life, New York, 2018.
R. Hort, “Reflecting on Felix Gonzalez-Torres During COVID-19,” White Wall Magazine, April 2020.
Doubles, exh. cat., New York, Maximilian Schubert, 2020.



Exhibited

Brussels, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Michael Jenkins, March-April 1991 (another example exhibited).
Glens Falls, The Hyde Collection, Just what is it that makes today’s home so different, so appealing?, September-November 1991, p. 20 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Tokyo, Wacoal Art Center, Three or More: A Multiple Exhibition, October 1992, p. 82 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Glasgow, Tramway, Read My Lips: New York AIDS Polemics, October-December 1992 (another example exhibited).
Washington D.C., The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institution, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Traveling, June-September 1994 (another example exhibited).
New York, Fischbach Gallery, Absence, Activism and the Body Politic, June 1994 (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, pp. 182 and 221 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Greene Naftali Gallery, Broken Home, May-June 1997 (another example exhibited).
Hannover, Sprengel Museum; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, June 1997-November 1998, no. 118, p. 69 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Lux/Lumen, June-September 1997, pp. 34 and 59 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Harrisburg, Susquehanna Art Museum, I’m Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, December 1999-February 2000 (another example exhibited).
St. Gallen, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, The Oldest Possible Memory, May-October 2000, p. 81 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Albuquerque, National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the United States, October-May 2001 (another example exhibited and illustrated on the cover).
Dallas Museum of Art, Gonzalez-Torres/Joseph Beuys, February-May 2001 (another example exhibited).
New York, Lehmann Maupin, L’Art Vivre, April-May 2005 (another example exhibited).
Waltham, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Broken Home, January-April 2008 (another example exhibited).
Clermont-Ferrand, L’Espace d’Art Contemporain La Tôlerie, La Foule (Zéro – Infini): Chapitre 1 (unite – dualité – la meute – la masse), May-July 2008.
Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Sparks! The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative, May-July 2008 (another example exhibited).
Clermont-Ferrand, L’Espace d’Art Contemporain La Tôlerie, La Foule (Zéro – Infini): Chapitre 2 (chaos – contrôle), October-November 2008, pp. 13-15 (another example exhibited and illustrated on the cover).
Paris, Passage du Retz and Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Insomniac Promenades: Dreaming/Sleeping in Contemporary Art, July 2008-July 2009 (another example exhibited).
Brussels, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form, January-May 2010 (another example exhibited).
The Miami Art Museum, Between Here and There: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, February 2010-April 2013 (another example exhibited).
Mexico City, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Somewhere/Nowhere, February-May 2010, p. 64 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Basel, Fondation Beyeler and Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form, May-April 2011 (another example exhibited).
New York, Pace Gallery, Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Lightbulb, October-November 2011 (another example exhibited).
Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Lisbon, Culturgest and New York, Artists Space, Tell It to My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, February 2013-February 2014, p. 55 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Paris, La Galerie des Galeries, In a Sentimental Mood, May-August 2013, pp. 8-9, 22 and 31 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Cleveland, Museum of Contemporary Art, DIRGE: Reflections on [Life and] Death, March-June 2014, pp. 18-19 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Centre Pompidou-Metz, 1984-1999 La Décennie, May 2014-March 2015 (another example exhibited).
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Pacific Design Center, Tongues Untied, June-September 2015 (another example exhibited).
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, What We Call Love: From Surrealism to Now, September 2015-February 2016, pp. 60-61 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Manifattura Tabacchi Modena, The Mannequin of History: Art after Fabrications of Critique and Culture, September 2015-January 2016 (another example exhibited).
Avignon, Collection Lambert, Patrice Chéreau, un musée imaginaire, July-October 2015, p. 164 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Moderne Kunst, An Imagined Museum: Works from the Centre Pompidou, the Tate and the MMK, March-September 2016 (another example exhibited).
New York, Christie's, Structure + Space, February-March 2016.
London, Hauser & Wirth, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, May-July 2016 (another example exhibited)
Reading Prison, Inside: Contemporary Artists and Writers in Reading Prison, September-December 2016 (another example exhibited).
Cleveland Museum of Art, Permanent Collection Installation, February 2017-February 2020 (another example exhibited).
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, The Half-Life of Love, March 2017-January 2018 (another example exhibited).
Geneva, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, May-September 2017 (another example exhibited).
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Give and Take: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, March-September 2018 (another example exhibited).
Milan, Massimo De Carlo, MCMXXXIV, March-May 2019 (another example exhibited).
Montpellier Contemporain, Intimate Distance, June-September 2019 (another example exhibited).
Hong Kong, David Zwirner, Singing the Body Electric, July-August 2019 (another example exhibited).
Cleveland Museum of Art, "Untitled" (March 5th) #2, 1991, 2021-ongoing (another example exhibited).
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Oh, Honey...A Queer Reading of the Collection, August-February 2022 (another example exhibited).
Sint-Martens-Latern, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Blindsight – Manon de Boer in dialogue with Latifa Laâbissi and Laszlo Umbreit, February-May 2022 (another example exhibited).
Kyoto, Hongwanji Dendoin, Flowers of Time, November 2022 (another example exhibited).
London, Tate Modern, Collection Installation in the Tanks, December 2023-September 2024 (another example exhibited)..
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