Dan Flavin

Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich
Private Collection, Germany
Christie's, New York, May 12, 2004, lot 413
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Munich, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Dan Flavin, May - June 1968
Düsseldorf, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dan Flavin: Fluorescent Light, January - February 1969 (another example exhibited)
Hamburg, Kunstverein; Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Sammlung 1968: Karl Ströher, June 1968 - September 1969, n.p., no. 50-51  (another example exhibited)
Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, November 2006 - March 2007 
New York, David Zwirner, Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions, November - December 2009, pp. 55 and 58, illustrated in color

Gerhard Bott, Bildnerische Ausdrucksformen 1960 -1970, Bern, 1969, p.153, illustrated in color
Rolf Lauter and Peter Iden, Bilder für Frankfurt: Bestandskatalog des Museums für moderne Kunst, Munich, 1985, p. 47, illustrated in color
Knud W. Jensen, Samling og bygninger/ The Collections and Buildings, Humlebæk, 1988, p. 283
Rolf Lauter, ed., Museum für moderne Kunst Frankurt am Main: 2. Informationsheft zur Architektur und Sammlung, Frankfurt, 1989, pp. 48- 49 and 55, illustrated in color
Judith Russi Kirschner, et. al., The Refco Collection, Chicago, 1990, p. 58, illustrated in color
Dorothee Fisher, ed., Ausstellungen bei Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Oktober 1967 - Oktober 1962, Bielefield, 1993, p. 27
Michael Govan and Tiffany Bell, Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961 - 1996, New Haven, 2004, cat. no. 177, p. 272, illustrated (diagram)

This work is in very good and sound condition. The sculpture is in good working order. There are scattered dust accretions on the surface. The casing of the bulbs exhibit light rub marks, scuffs and fine and unobtrusive abrasions. Otherwise there are no other apparent condition problems with this work.
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