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Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Robert Gober

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Auction Closed

November 17, 10:15 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

Robert Gober

b. 1954


Drain

incised R. Gober, titled, dated '89 and numbered 3 of 8 (on the underside)

cast pewter

4¼ by 4¼ by 3 in.

11 by 11 by 7.6 cm.


Executed in 1989, this work is number 3 from an edition of 8, plus 2 artist's proofs.

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in March 1990 by the present owner
Roberta Smith, “The Reinvented Americana of Robert Gober’s Mind,” The New York Times, 13 October 1989, p. C28
Robert Gober and Richard Flood, “Robert Gober: Special Editions, An Interview,” Print Collector’s Newsletter, March-April 1990, p. 7 
Ken Johnson, “Cleaning House”, Art in America, January 1990, pp. 150-151
Theodora Vischer, “Robert Gober” Basel, 1994, pp. 123-124
Frances Morris, Robert Gober, London, 1995, pp. 96-99
Theodora Vischer, “Liaisons dangereuses, Basil, 1995, pp. 36-52
Exh. Cat., Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; The Art Institute of Chicago, Juan Muñoz, 2001, p. 43
Peter Fischer, Fields of Projection, Passages: Robert Gober’s Objects, Lucerne, 2002, p. 128-129
Hal Foster, Design and Crime: and other Diatribes, London/New York, 2002, p.131
Hal Foster, “This Funeral is for the Wrong Corpse”, Castelló, 2003, p. 122
Alexander Braun, Robert Gober- Werke von 1976 bis heute. Amerikanische Kunst der Gegenwart im Spannungsfeld einer vernetzten Bildrealitat, Nürnberg, 2003, pp. 156-158, 168-172
Michael Petry, Hidden Histories. 20th Century Male Same Sex Lovers in Visual Arts, London, 2004, p. 92
Scott Rothkopf, “Returns of the Repressed: The Legacy of Surrealism in American Art”, Surrealism USA, 2004, p. 73
Theodora Vischer, Ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations, 1979-2007, Basel 2007, pp. 242-243, no. S.1989.07, illustrated in color
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Robert Gober, 1989 
Antwerp, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Werken van Robert Gober en Bruce, 1989 (another example exhibited)
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Bern, Robert Gober, 1990, p. 78  (another example exhibited) 
Santa Monica, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, The Lick of the Eye, 1991 (another example exhibited)
Milwaukee Art Museum, Currents 20/ Recent Narrative Sculpture, 1992 (another example exhibited)
Cologne, Galerie Max Hetzler and Thomas Borgman, Robert Gober, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Albert Oehlen, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Philip Taaffe, Christopher Wool, 1992 (another example exhibited)
London, Serpentine Gallery; Tate Liverpool, Robert Gober, 1993, p. 9 (text) (another example exhibited)
Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zimmer in denen die Zeit nicht zählt: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, 1994 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Institut Neerlandais, Avant-première d’un musée- Le Musée d’Art Contemporain de Gand, 1996 (another example exhibited)
Gent, Musuem van Gedengaagse Kunst, Voor het verdwijnt en daarna, 1998 (another example exhibited)
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Malmö, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, 1999-2000, pp.16, 34, 121, 122 (another example exhibited)
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Robert Gober – Forskyvninger / Displacements, 2003, p.60, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Munich, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst im Haus der Kunst, Food for the Mind: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, 2000 (another example exhibited)
The Baltimore Museum of Art, BodySpace, 2001, n.p. (another example exhibited)
New York, D’Amelio Terras, 5 Sculptures, 2002
London, White Cube, The Unthought Known, 2002 (another example exhibited)
Oslo, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Realitetsfantasier-postmodernistisk kunst fra Astrup Fearnley Samlingen, 2002 (another example exhibited)
Pori Art Museum, Transformer, 2002 (another example exhibited)
Mount Kisco, The Foundation To-Life, Inc., Presence, 2003 (another example exhibited)
New York, Dickson Roundell, Aftershock: The Legacy of the Readymade in Post-War and Contemporary American Art, 2003 (another example exhibited)
Oklahoma City Museum of Art; Reno, Nevada Museum of Art; Mobile Museum of Art, International Legacy: Selections from Carnegie Museum of Art, 2005 (another example exhibited)
Ishøj, ARKEN, Museum for Modern Kunst, Pletskud: Vaerker fra Astrup Fearnley Samlinger, 2003 (another example exhibited)
University of Cambridge, Kettle’s Yard, The Unhomely, 2004 (another example exhibited)
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), 2004 (another example exhibited)
Osaka, The National Museum of Art; Yokohma Museum, Mirrorical Returns: Marcel Duchamp and the 20th Century Art, 2004-2005 (another example exhibited)
Basel, Schaulager, Robert Gober. Work 1976-2007, 2007 (another example exhibited)