Contemporary Art Day Auction

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Lot 106
  • 106

Dan Flavin

Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
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Description

  • Dan Flavin
  • Untitled (to S.A. lovingly)

  • red and blue fluorescent light

  • 96 by 96 by 10 in. 243.8 by 243.8 by 20.3 cm.
  • Executed in 1987, this work is one from an edition of 3, of which 2 were fabricated and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Provenance

Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Acquired by the present owner from the above in April 1988

Exhibited

Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, Dan Flavin: Lighting, Drawing, Printing, December 1987 - January 1988
Geneve, Musée Rath, Minimal Art dans la Collection Panza di Biumo, July - October 1988, n.p., illustrated (another example)
Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, Collection Panza: Dan Flavin, June - September 1989 (another example)
Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Un Choix d'art minimal dans la collection Panza, July - November 1990, pp. 52-53, illustrated in color (another example - installation view)

Literature

Maiten Bousset, "L'Espace au néon de Dan Flavin," Beaux Arts, no. 90, May 1991, p. 73, illustrated in color (another example - installation view from Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris)
Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, The Panza Collection: Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza, Geneva, 2002, p. 115, illustrated in color (another example)
Michael Govan & Tiffany Bell, Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights 1961 - 1996, New Haven and London, 2004, cat. no. 502, p. 366, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good and working condition. The aluminum casings, which appear in very fine and good condition, do show unobtrusive abrasions and nicks, primarily located at the resting points of the work. The the fourth casing from the top has three faint hairline black scuff marks, measuring approximately 3/4 inch each.
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