Robert Gober

Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
Private Collection, Cologne
Acquired directly from the above by the present owner

Roberta Smith, 'The Reinvented Americana of Robert Gober's Mind', The New York Times, 13 October 1989, p. C28, another example from the edition illustrated
Robert Gober and Richard Flood, 'Robert Gober: Special Editions, An Interview', Print: Collector's Newsletter, March-April 1990, pp. 6-9, another example from the edition illustrated
Robert Gober and Gaery Indiana, 'Success: Robert Gober', Interview, May 1990, p. 72, another example from the edition illustrated
Ken Johnson, 'Cleaning the House', Art in America, January 1990, p. 150, another example from the edition illustrated
Exhibition Catalogue, London, Serpentine Gallery; Liverpool, Tate Gallery Liverpool, Robert Gober, 1993, pp. 10-11, another example from the edition illustrated
Thomas Weaver, Handmade Readymades, New York 1996, p. 7, another example from the edition illustrated
Exhibition Catalogue, Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Malmö, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Washington, DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, 1999-2000, pp. 16-17, another example from the edition illustrated
Exhibition Catalogue, Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Art in our Time: 1950 to the Present, 1999-2001, pp. 123-24, another example from the edition illustrated
Hal Foster, Design and Crime: And Other Diatribes, New York/London 2002, p. 132, another example from the edition illustrated
Alexander Braun, Robert Gober - Werke von 1976 bis heute. Amerikanishce Kunst der Gegenwart im Spannungsfeld einer vernetzten Bildrealität, Nuremberg 2003, p. 243, another example from the edition illustrated
Exhibition Catalogue, Albany, New York State Museum, Strangely Familiar: Approaches to Scale in the Collection of Museum of Modern Art, 2003, n.p., another example from the edition illustrated
Hal Foster, Prosthetic Gods, Cambridge 2004, p. 325, another example from the edition illustrated
Dora Apel, Imagery of Lynching: Black Men, White Women, and the Mob, New Brunswick/New Jersey/London, 2004, p. 216, another example from the edition illustrated
Paola Antonelli and Joshua Siegel, Modern Contemporary: Art since 1980 at MoMA, New York 2004, p. 252, another example from the edition illustrated in colour
Elisabeth Sussman and Theodora Vischer, Robert Gober: Sculpture and Installtions 1979 - 2007, Basel 2007, pp. 236-37, another example from the edition illustrated in colour
Exhibition Catalogue, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Pittsburgh, The Andy Warhol Museum, Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, 2013, p. 31, no. 71, another example from the edition illustrated in colour

Colours: The colours in the catalogue illustration are fairly accurate. Condition: This work is in very good condition. A chip to the plaster has been restored on the extreme outer edge of the red band on the reverse. This has been slightly infilled and is unobtrusive.
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