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Property from a Private American Collection

Dan Flavin

alternate diagonals of March 2, 1964 (to Don Judd)

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Property from a Private American Collection

Dan Flavin

1933 - 1996


alternate diagonals of March 2, 1964 (to Don Judd) 

daylight fluorescent light

length of diagonal: 144 in.

length of diagonal: 365.8 cm.

Executed in 1964, this work is number 3 from an edition of 3 of which 3 were fabricated and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Estate of the artist
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 
Private Collection, Chicago
David Zwirner, New York
Acquired from the above in July 2014 by the present owner
Das Kunstwerk 29, no. 6, November 1976, p. 30, illustrated (installed at Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, Cologne, 1985) (another example illustrated)
Bernhard Kerber, Bestände Onnasch, Bremen, 1992, p. 150, illustrated in color (another example illustrated)
Donald Kuspit, "Dan Flavin: Paula Cooper Gallery," Artforum, no. 3, November 2003, p. 190, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Michael Govan and Tiffany Bell, Dan Flavin: the Complete Lights, 1961-1996, New Haven/ London, 2004, no. 38, p. 228, illustrated in color and illustrated in color (in the artist's diagram) 
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Aspekte der 60er Jahre: aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch, February - April 1978, pp. 28-29, 120, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Zurich, Halle Für Internationale Neue Kunst, INK, August - October 1980, no. 6, p. 44 (another example exhibited) 
Berlin, Messehallen, Die nützlichen Künst, May - June 1981, p. 32 (another example exhibited)
Berlin, Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, Dan Flavin, March - April 1985 (another example exhibited)
Krefeld, Museum Haus Lange, 30 Jahre durch die Kunst, September - December 1985, no. 18, p. 40, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Mönchengladbach, Städtische Museum Abteiberg, Dan Flavin: 4 Werke in fluoreszierendem Licht aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch, September - October 1990, no. 1, pp. 1-2, illustrated in color (in installation) (another example exhibited)
New York, Zwirner & Wirth, Dan Flavin: Works from the 1960s, September - November 2000, (another example exhibited)
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Dan Flavin, May - June 2003 (another example exhibited)