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CHRIS BURDEN | RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS (FROM SMALL GUNS SERIES)

Lot Closed

May 14, 04:58 PM GMT

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

CHRIS BURDEN

1946 - 2015

RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS (FROM SMALL GUNS SERIES)


acrylic on metal, wood, straw, brass and printed paper on wood

12½ by 29 by 11 in. 31.8 by 73.7 by 27.9 cm.

Executed in 1994.

Gagosian Gallery, New York

Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

Collection of Peter Norton, Los Angeles

Christies, New York, 7 March 2012, Lot 42 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Exh. Cat., Vienna, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Chris Burden: Beyond the Limits, 1996, p. 147, illustrated

Jon Bewley and Jonty Tarbuck, Eds., Chris Burden, New York 2007, p. 404

New York, Gagosian Gallery, LAPD Uniforms, America's Darker Moments, Small Guns, February - March 1994