FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996)

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$ 800 000
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10.03.2022 10:00 UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 311 | FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996)
FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996)

"Untitled" (Last Light)

light bulbs, plastic light sockets, electrical cord, and dimmer switch

overall dimensions vary with installation

Executed in 1993. This work is the third artist's proof from an edition of twenty-four plus six artist’s proofs, published by A.R.T. Press, Los Angeles and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.







Provenance

Private collection, acquired directly from the artist, 1994

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

Private collection, 1997

Private collection, by descent from the above

Private collection, 2014

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2016





Literature

S. Dewan, "Quiet, Please," Houston Press, 3-9 October 1996, p. 45.

D. Elger, et al., eds., Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997, vol. 1, p. 57; vol. 2, p. 125, no. 246 (another example illustrated).

D. Gonzalez-Foerster, et al., eds., Moment Ginza: City Guide, Stockholm, 1997, p. 1.

J. Rondeau, The Art Institute of Chicago: Museum Studies - The Lannan Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1999, pp. 84-85.

T. Ragasol, ed., Colección Jumex, Mexico City, 1999, pp. 14-17 (another example illustrated).

M. Darling and A. Goldstein, The Blake Byrne Collection, Los Angeles, 2005, pp. 17, 38 and 82 (another example illustrated).

F. Sanchez, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, 2006, n.p. (another example illustrated).

N. Bray and C. Baldwin, Transformed, Virginia Beach, 2008, pp. 4, 9, 20-21, 35 and 38 (another example illustrated).

R. Slovak, ed., Now You See It, Aspen, 2008, pp. 8-9, 58-61 and 84-85 (another example illustrated).

“Openings This Week,” Time Out, 12-18 December 2008, p. 15.

D. A. Williamson, “Now You Don’t,” Time Out, 19-25 December 2008, pp. 8-9.

“Selected New Acquisitions,” The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Magazine, Winter 2008-Spring 2009, p. 36.

"Best Bets 01.2009,” Aspen Magazine, January 2009, p. 37 (another example illustrated).

K. MacMillan, "You may 'see' it at Aspen Art Museum and still not get it," Denver Post, 23 January 2009, pp. 1D, 5D and 16D.

S. Landau, Contemporary Art in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 2010.

"Au L.A.C., la rencontre de deux collections," Midi Libre, 29 July 2011.

“Principales acquisitions,” La revue des musées de France Acquisitions 2009-2010, Paris, 2011, p. 88 (another example illustrated).

W. Simmons, "William Tell All: Last Light in Harvard's Sackler Museum. (10/20)," Harvard Independent, 2011.

J. Grove and O. Viso, eds., Jim Hodges: Give More Than You Take, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 2013, pp. 56, 111 and 172-185 (another example illustrated).

Nuit Blanche, Paris, 5 October 2013, Paris, pp. 41 and 43 (another example illustrated).

ArtAids Foundation, ed., Perfect Lovers. Art in the Time of AIDS, Barcelona, 2014, pp. 6-11 (another example illustrated).

C. Macel, ed., Une Historie. Art, architecture, design, dés annees 1980 à nos jours, Paris, 2014, pp. 124 and 127 (another example illustrated).

J. R. Wolin, ed., Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Los Angeles, 2014, pp. 21 and 54-55 (another example illustrated).

D. J. Getsy, Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender, New Haven, 2015.

J. Canela, I Speak Knowing it's not About Speaking, Barcelona, 2015, p. 33 (another example illustrated).

J. Ault, ed., Macho Man Tell It To My Heart, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2016, pp. 64-65 and 142-143.

S. Harris and M. Staniszewski, eds., Exit Art: Unfinished Memories: 30 Years of Exit Art, Göttingen, 2016, p. 100.

T. Gebremedhin, "Three New Shows Celebrate the Work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres," WSJ Magazine, 5 May 2016.

A. Rounthwaite, Asking the Audience: Participatory Art in 1980s New York, Minneapolis, 2017.

J. Marks-White, "Imagine That," Westport Magazine, Westport, 2017, p. 107.

L. Qi and L. Frogier, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Shanghai, 2017.

C. Lausen, Space Shifters, London, 2018.

H. Nakanishi and H. Suzuki, The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 200 Works with 19 Themes, Osaka, 2018, p. 21.

B. Barcena, Open House: Gala Porras-Kim, Los Angeles, 2019, pp. 31-34 and 36-39.

B. Park, When attitude becomes art, Seoul, 2019.

M. Okazaki, National Museum of Art Guide 4 — Masterpieces from the National Museum of Art, Osaka, Osaka, 2019.

P. Frederic, ed., Points De Rencontres, Paris, 2019, p. 101 (another example illustrated).

"Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan News," Osaka, November 2020 (another example illustrated).





Exhibited

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Portraits, Plots and Places: The Permanent Collection Revisited, January 1992-March 1994 (another example exhibited).

New York, Exit Art/The First World, …it’s how you play the game, November 1994-February 1995 (another example exhibited).

New York, Betsy Senior Gallery, A.R.T. Press: Prints and Multiples, January-February 1995 (another example exhibited).

New York, Feature Inc., The Moderns, June-July 1995 (another example exhibited).

Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Felix Gonzalez-Torres (A Possible Landscape), December 1995-March 1996 (another example exhibited).

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Girlfriend in a Coma), April-June 1996 (another example exhibited).

Houston, Lawing Gallery, Silence, September-October 1996 (another example exhibited).

Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, Memento Mori, November 1996-January 1997 (another example exhibited).

London, Cannon Brewery, Blue Horizon, May-June 1998 (another example exhibited).

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Proliferation, March-June 1999 (another example exhibited).

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Colección Jumex, April-August 1999, pp. 14-17 (another example illustrated and exhibited).

Paris, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, Always Paris, November-December 2000 (another example exhibited).

Mexico City, La Colección Jumex, Killing Time and Listening Between the Lines, March 2003-February 2004 (another example exhibited).

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Selections from the Permanent Collection, October 2003-February 2004 (another example exhibited).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Permanent Collection Installation, 2005 (another example exhibited).

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Vanishing Point: Beauty in Contemporary Art, April-October 2005 (another example exhibited).

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Shadowland: An Exhibition as Film, April-September 2005 (another example exhibited).

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), The Blake Byrne Collection, July-October 2005, pp. 17, 38 and 82 (another example illustrated and exhibited).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Permanent Collection Installation, 2008 (another example exhibited).

Virginia Beach, The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Transformed, July-September 2008, pp. 4, 9 and 20-21 (another example illustrated and exhibited).

Mexico City, Galería Jumex, Grupo Jumex Centro de Distribución, An Unruly History of the Readymade, September 2008-March 2009, p. 114 (another example illustrated and exhibited).

Cascais, Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Listen, Darling…The World is Yours, October 2008-August 2009 (another example exhibited).

Aspen Art Museum, Now You See It, December 2008-February 2009, pp. 8-9, 58-61, 84-85 and 97 (another example illustrated and exhibited).

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, November 2009-May 2010 (another example exhibited).

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Event Horizon, November 2009-August 2011 (another example exhibited).

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Presentation des collections permanente, April 2011-March 2014 (another example exhibited).

Cambridge, Harvard University, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Re-View: European and American Art Since 1900, May 2011-June 2013 (another example exhibited).

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Absentee Landlord, June 2011-July 2012 (another example exhibited).

Sigean, Lieu D'Art Contemporain Narbonne, Playtime: Works from the Klosterfelde Collection, June-September 2011 (another example exhibited).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Felix Gonzalez-Torres in the Modern Wing, July 2011-January 2012 (another example exhibited).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Permanent Collection Installation, 2012-2013 (another example exhibited).

Philadelphia, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, An Odyssey: A Narrative of The Fabric Workshop and Museum, September-December 2012 (another example exhibited).

Shanghai, Powerstation of Art, Electric Fields: Surrealism and beyond - La Collection du Centre Pompidou, December 2012-March 2013 (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, pp. 56, 111 and 172-185 (another example exhibited).

Nuit Blanche Paris, Nuit Blanche 2013, 5 October 2013 (another example exhibited).

Los Angeles, Fahrenheit, Far and High, January-April 2014 (another example exhibited).

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Selections From the Permanent Collection, February 2014-April 2015 (another example exhibited).

Jerusalem, Israel Museum, Unstable Places: New in Contemporary Art, June 2014-January 2015 (another example exhibited).

Paris, Centre Pompidou and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Une histoire – art, architecture et design des années 1980 à nos jours, July 2014-September 2016 (another example exhibited).

Barcelona, Fundació Suñol, Perfect Lovers. Art in the Time of AIDS, October 2014-January 2015, pp. 6-11 (another example illustrated and exhibited).

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections, October 2014-September 2016 (another example exhibited).

Toronto, Scrap Metal, Somebody, Everybody, Nobody, October 2014-March 2015 (another example exhibited).

Durham, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; Columbus, Ohio State University, Urban Arts Space; New York, Columbia University, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery and Portland, Lewis and Clark College, Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, February 2015-December 2016 (another example exhibited).

CaixaForum Barcelona, Hablo, sabiendo que no se trata de eso [I speak, knowing it´s not about speaking], October 2015-February 2016 (another example exhibited).

Los Angeles, Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Don't Look Back: The 1990s at MOCA, March-July 2016 (another example exhibited).

Munich, Haus der Kunst, A History. Contemporary Art from the Centre Pompidou, March-September 2016 (another example exhibited).

Westport Arts Center, MORE Than Words, September-October 2016 (another example exhibited).

Shanghai, Rockbund Art Museum, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, September-December 2016 (another example exhibited).

Los Angeles, Regen Projects, What I Loved: Selected Works from the 1990s, March-April 2017 (another example exhibited).

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, I am you, you are too, September 2017-March 2020 (another example exhibited).

New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Minimalism and Beyond, September-October 2017 (another example exhibited).

Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), MACBA Collection. Beneath the Surface, October 2017-November 2018 (another example exhibited).

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Hanging Contemporary Collections, 2018 (another example exhibited).

Osaka, The National Museum of Art, The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes, May-July 2018 (another example exhibited).

Osaka, The National Museum of Art, Collection 2: The 1980s Zeitgeist as a Point of Departure, November 2018-January 2019 (another example exhibited).

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Hanging Contemporary Collections, 2019 (another example exhibited).

Wakayama City, The Museum of Modern Art; Tottori Prefectural Museum; Tokushima Modern Art Museum and Saitama, The Museum of Modern Art, The New York Art Scene: From Rothko and Warhol to Kusama and Basquiat — From the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga and More, June 2019-January 2020 (another example exhibited).

Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Open House: Gala Porras-Kim, October 2019-May 2020 (another example exhibited).

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Points de Recontres, October 2019-January 2020 (another example exhibited).

Nivå, Nivaagaard Malerisamlong, DANH VO PRÆSENTERER / DANH VO PRESENTS, July-December 2020 (another example exhibited).

Bergamo, Palazzo della Ragione, Il Dono. Sulla Vita e La Morte [The Gift. On Life and Death], November 2020-May 2021 (another example exhibited).

Paris, Centre Pompidou, Aspects of Conceptual Art, 2021-ongoing (another example exhibited).

Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Felix Gonzalez-Torres: The Politics of Relation, March-September 2021 (another example exhibited).

Osaka, The National Museum of Art, Collection 3: Between Visible and Invisible, March-May 2021 (another example exhibited).

Hong Kong, David Zwirner, The Real World, May-July 2021 (another example exhibited).

Florence, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, American Art 1961-2001, May-August 2021 (another example exhibited).
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