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A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection
Robert Gober
Bag of Donuts
Auction Closed
March 9, 09:07 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection
Robert Gober
b. 1954
Bag of Donuts
signed R. Gober and dated 1989 (on the underside of the bag)
paper, dough and rhoplex
11 by 6¼ by 6 in.
27.9 by 15.9 by 15.2 cm.
Executed in 1989, this work is number 3 from an edition of 8.
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1998, lot 4
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1998, lot 4
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Stephan Götz, American Artists in their New York Studios: Conversations About the Creation of Contemporary Art, Cambridge 1992, pp. 62-63, illustrated in color
Ian Chilvers, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, Oxford 1998, p. 224 (text)
Hal Foster, Design and Crime and Other Diatribes, New York 2002, p. 132 (text)
Martha Bushkirk, The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art, Cambridge 2003, pp. 143, 145, 147-149, illustrated
Hal Foster, Prosthetic Gods, Cambridge 2004, p. 326, illustrated in installation at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Ian Chilvers, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, Oxford 1998, p. 224 (text)
Hal Foster, Design and Crime and Other Diatribes, New York 2002, p. 132 (text)
Martha Bushkirk, The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art, Cambridge 2003, pp. 143, 145, 147-149, illustrated
Hal Foster, Prosthetic Gods, Cambridge 2004, p. 326, illustrated in installation at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York