SHERRIE LEVINE (B. 1947) - photo 1
SHERRIE LEVINE (B. 1947) - photo 2
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SHERRIE LEVINE (B. 1947) - photo 5
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SHERRIE LEVINE (B. 1947)

Lot 33
14.05.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
Classic
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ID 1426132
Lot 33 | SHERRIE LEVINE (B. 1947)
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 350 000
SHERRIE LEVINE (B. 1947)
Fountain (After Marcel Duchamp)
incised with the artist's initials and numbered 'SL 5/6' (on the underside)
bronze
14½ x 14 x 26 in. (36.8 x 35.6 x 66.1 cm.)
Executed in 1991. This work is number five from an edition of six plus one artist's proof.




Provenance

Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Private collection, Minneapolis
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 13 November 2008, lot 336
Private collection, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2015



Literature

E. Hayt-Atkins, "Sherrie Levine," Galeries Magazine, May 1991, p. 104 (another example illustrated).
J. Decter, "Sherrie Levine," Flash Art International, October 1991, p. 137 (another example illustrated).
J. Siegel, "Uncanny Repetition, Sherrie Levine's Multiple Originals," ARTS magazine, September 1991, p. 33 (another example illustrated).
K. Johnson, "Sherrie Levine," Art in America, October 1991, p. 145 (another example illustrated).
Aspects de l'Art du XXme sicle-L'Oeuvre Re-Produite, exh. cat., Maymac, Abbaye Saint André-Centre d'Art Contemporain, 1991, p. 37 (another example illustrated).
D. Salvioni, "The Transgressions of Sherrie Levine," Parkett, #32, June 1992, pp. 85-87 (another example illustrated).
H. Legros, "Sherrie Levine rend ses copies," Beaux-Arts, July-August 1992, p. 100 (another example illustrated).
D. Waldman, Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object, London 1992, no. 397, p. 315 (another example illustrated).
D. Ottinger, "Marcel Duchamp: revolution ou sabotage?," Beaux-Arts, March 1993, p. 86 (another example illustrated).
J.-M. Ribettes, "Untitled," Galeries Magazine, April-May 1993, p. 93 (another example illustrated).
R. Krauss, "Images and Words," Art Press, September 1993, p. E21, (another example illustrated).
P. Clothier, "Living with Art," Artnews, February 1995, p. 82 (another example illustrated).
S. Bocola, Timelines, L'Art moderne 1870-2000, 2001, p. 145, no. 867 (another example illustrated).
Sherrie Levine, Pairs and Posses, exh. cat., Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, October 2010-February 2011, p. 18 (another example illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Sherrie Levine, Fountain, May-June 1991, p. 11 (another example exhibited and illustrated on the cover).
Zurich, Kunsthalle; Munster, Westfúlisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte; Malmö, Roseu Center for Contemporary Art and Paris, Hotel des Arts, Sherrie Levine, November 1991-August 1992 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Philadelphia Museum of Art and Frankfurt, Portikus, Sherrie Levine, Newborn, October 1993-February 1994, p. 13, no. 4 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Rouen, Grande Galerie de l'Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, "Et qui libre?" Hommage à Marcel Duchamp, May-June 1994.
Geneva, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, MAMCO, Rudiments d'un musée possible I, September 1994-February 1995.
San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art; Guadalajara, Museo de las Artes and Instituto Cultural Cabañas; Monterrey, Museo Contemporaneo de Arte; Santiago de Compostela, Iglesia San Domingos de Bonaval; Seville, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporanea and Granada, Instituto de Amèrica, Centro Damián Bayón, Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, June 1998-May 2001 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
London, Simon Lee Gallery and New York, Nyehaus Gallery, Sherrie Levine, June-October 2007, p. 15 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Geneva, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, MAMCO, Prsentation des Collections, May 2008-September 2009 (another example exhibited).
Lausanne, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Incongru. Quand l'art fait rire, October 2011-January 2012, p. 166 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Sherrie Levine: Mayhem, November 2011-January 2012 pp. 108-109 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections, October 2014-December 2016 (another example exhibited).
Vancouver Art Gallery, MashUp: The Birth of Modern Culture, February-June 2016 (another example exhibited).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, May-October 2016, p. 264 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, Marcel Duchamp Fountain: An Homage, April-May 2017, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, David Nolan Gallery, Duchamp Threads the Needle, February-March 2020 (another example exhibited).
Artist:Sherrie Levine (1947)
Applied technique:Metalwork
Medium:Bronze
Art style:Contemporary art
Auction house category:Sculptures, Statues & Figures
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