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Property from a Private Collection, Colorado

Robert Gober

Untitled (Candle)

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Property from a Private Collection, Colorado

Robert Gober

b. 1954

Untitled (Candle)


beeswax, string and human hair

8 by 4 7/8 by 6 1/2 in. 20.3 by 14.9 by 16.5 cm.

Executed in 1991, this work is number 5 from an edition of 6, plus 2 artist's proofs. 

Please note this lot has been withdrawn.
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Private Collection, Milwaukee
Anthony d'Offay, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Joan Simon, Robert Gober: Oeuvres Nouvelles, Art Press, no. 162, October 1991, p. 42, illustrated
Joan Simon, “Robert Gober et l’Extra Ordinaire/Robert Gober and the Extra Ordinary,” Robert Gober, Paris, 1991, pp. 23 and 62-63, illustrated
Jean-Pierre Criqui, “Robert Gober: Jeu de Paume,” Artforum, January 1992, p. 115
Dean Sobel, Recent Narrative Sculpture, Milwaukee, 1992, no. 6; Ethik und Ästhetik im Zeitaler von Aids, Cologne, 1992, p. 21, illustrated
Helaine Posner, “Separation Anxiety,” Corporal Politics: Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Lilla LoCurto and William Outcault, Annette Messager, Rona Pondick, Kiki Smith, David Wojnarowicz, Cambridge, 1992, pp. 26 and 41, illustrated
Joan Simon and Catherine David, Robert Gober, Barcelona, 1992, p. 72, no. 13, illustrated
Thomas Lacquer, “Clio Looks at Corporal Politics,” Corporal Politics: Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Lilla LoCurto and William Outcault, Annette Messager, Rona Pondick, Kiki Smith, David Wojnarowicz, Cambridge, 1992, p. 17; A. Ferris, “Hair and Mourning,” Hair, Sheboygan, 1993, pp. 6 and 31, illustrated
Richard Flood, “Robert Gober: Interview with Richard Flood,” Robert Gober, London/Liverpool, 1993, p. 13, fig. 6, illustrated
Katharina Schmidt and Theodora Vischer, Zimmer in denen die Zeit nicht zählt: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, Basel, 1994, p. 137, no. 88
Michael Petry, “Abstract Eroticism,” Art & Design Profile No. 47, March/April, 1996, pp. 49 and 63, illustrated
Hal Foster, “The Art of the Missing Part,” Robert Gober, Los Angeles, 1997, pp. 62-63
Robert Gober and Richard Flood, “Interview,” Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, Minneapolis, 1999, pp. 133-134, illustrated
Hal Foster, “An Art of Missing Parts,” October, No. 92, Cambridge, Spring 2000, pp. 149-150
Bernhardt Schwenk, “Robert Gober,” Food for the Mind: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, Munich, 2000, p. 211, illustrated
Marina Schneede, Mit Haut und Haaren.  Der Körper in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Cologne, 2002, pp. 110-111, illustrated
Alexander Braun, Robert Gober: Werke von 1976 bis heute, Bonn, 2003, p. 241, no. 102, illustrated
Hal Foster, Prosthetic Gods, Cambridge, 2004, p. 322, no. 8.13, illustrated
Robert Storr, Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque: the Fifth International SITE Santa Fe Biennial Exhibition, New York, 2004, p. 60, illustrated
Merrill Falkenberg and Eric Fischl, all the more real, Southampton, 2007, p. 76, illustrated
Theodora Vischer, ed., Robert Gober Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, Basel, 2007, p. 302, no. S 1991.09, illustrated
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Group Exhibition, September - October 1991 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Robert Gober, October 1991 - March 1992, no. 13 (another example exhibited)
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Currents 20/Recent Narrative Sculpture, March - May 1992, no. 6 (another example exhibited)
Hamburg, Kunstverein; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Ethik und Äesthetik im Zeitalter von Aids, May – November 1992 (another example exhibited)
Sheboygan, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Hair, December 1992 - February 1993, no. 14 (another example exhibited)
Cambridge, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Corporal Politics: Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Lilla LoCurto and William Outcault, Annette Messager, Rona Pondick, Kiki Smith, David Wojnarowicz, December 1992 - February 1993 (another example exhibited)
San Francisco, Haines Gallery, Body Parts, May - June 1993 (another example)
Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zimmer in denen die Zeit nicht zählt: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, June - October 1994, no. 88 (another example)
Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma/Finnish National Gallery, Ars 95 Helsinki, February - May 1995 (another example)
New York, Sean Kelly Gallery, corpus virtue, September - October 1998 (another example)
New York, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, Transfiguration, November - December 1998 (another example exhibited)
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Malmö, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, February 1999 – September 2000, no. 95 (another example exhibited)
Munich, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst im Haus der Kunst, Food for the Mind: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, June - October 2000, no. ABB.S.211 (another example exhibited)
Mount Kisco, The Foundation To-Life, Inc., Exhibition Space, Presence, 2003
Santa Fe, The Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, SITE Santa Fe, Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, July  2004 - January 2005 (another example exhibited)
Mount Kisco, The Foundation To-Life, Inc., Exhibition Space, Eccentric Modern, March - August 2006 (another example); New Canaan, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, WaxWorks, September - October 2006 (exhibition copy)
Purchase, Neuberger Museum of Art, Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, September 2006 - January 2007 (another example exhibited)
Southampton, The Parrish Art Museum, All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy, August - October 2007 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Make Art/Stop AIDS, February - June 2008 (another example exhibited)
Munich, Museum Brandhorst, Group exhibition, May 2009 - Summer 2010 (another example exhibited)
Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, WAX - A New Sensualism in Contemporary Sculpture, January - May 2011 (another example exhibited)