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Property from the Collection of the Felix González-Torres Family
Felix González-Torres
"Untitled" (March 5th) #2
Auction Closed
September 30, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
600,000 - 800,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Collection of the Felix González-Torres Family
Felix González-Torres
1957 - 1996
"Untitled" (March 5th) #2
Light bulbs, porcelain light sockets, and electrical cords
113 in. in height
287 cm.
Executed in 1991, this work is number 9 from an edition of 20, plus 2 artist's proofs.
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Andrea Rosen Gallery and signed by the artist.
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Glen Falls, The Hyde Collection, Just what is it that makes today's home so different, so appealing?, September – November 1991
Tokyo, Wacoal Art Center, Three or More- A Multiple Exhibition, October 1992
Glasgow, Tramway, Read My Lips: New York AIDS Polemics, October – December 1992
New York, Fischbach Gallery, Absence, Activism and the Body Politic, June – July 1994
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; The Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Traveling, June – September 1994
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (shown under exhibition title Felix Gonzalez-Torres (A Possible Landscape)); Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, [shown under exhibition title Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Girlfriend in a Coma)), Felix Gonzalez-Torres, December 1995 – June 1996
New York, Green Naftali, Broken Home, May – June 1997
Hannover, Sprengel Museum; St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, June 1997 – November 1998
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Lux/Lumen, June – October 1997
Harrisburg, Susquehanna Art Museum, I'm Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, December 1999 – February 2000
St. Gallen, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, The Oldest Possible Memory, May – October 2000
New Mexico, National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the United States, October – May 2001
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres/Joseph Beuys, February – May 2001
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, A Matter of Degree: Abstraction in Twentieth Century Art, November 2001 – January 2002
Avignon, Collection Lambert, Coolustre, May – September 2003
Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume Eblouissement, June – September 2004
New York, Lehmann Maupin, L'Art Vivre, April – May 2005
Waltham, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Broken Home, January – April 2008
Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Sparks! The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative, May – July 2008
Clermont-Ferrand, L’Espace d’Art Contemporain, La Tôlerie, La Foule (Zéro – Infini): Chapitre 1 (unite – dualité – la meute – la masse) [The Crowd (Zero – Infinity): Chapter 1 (unity – duality – the pack – the multitude), May - July 2008
Paris, Passage du Retz; Petah Tikva, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Insomniac Promenades: Dreaming/Sleeping in Contemporary Art, July 2008 – July 2009
Clermont-Ferrand, L’Espace d’Art Contemporain, La Foule (Zéro – Infini): Chapitre 2 (chaos – contrôle) [The Crowd (Zero – Infinity): Chapter 2 (chaos – control)], October – November 2008
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Permanent Collection Installation, December 2009 – January 2013
Brussels, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre; Basel, Fondation Beyler; Frankfurt, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form, January 2010 – April 2011
Miami, Miami Art Museum (MAM), Between Here and There: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, February 2010 – April 2013
Mexico City, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Somewhere/Nowhere: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, February – May 2010
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection, February – May 2011
New York, Pace Gallery, Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Lightbulb, October – November 2011
Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Lisbon, Culturgest; New York, Artists Space, Tell it to My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, February 2013 – February 2014
Paris, La Galerie des Galeries, In a Sentimental Mood, May - August 2013
Cleveland, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, DIRGE: Reflections on [Life and] Death], March – June 2014
Metz, Centre Pompidou-Metz, 1984 -1999. La Décennie, May – March 2015
London, Phillips, A Very Brief History of Contemporary Sculpture, October 2014
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tongues Untied, June – September 2015
Avignon, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Patrice Chéreau, un musée imaginaire, July – October 2015
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, What We Call Love - From Surrealism to Now, September 2015 – February 2016 12, 2015 – February 7, 2016
Modena, Manifattura Tabacchi , The Mannequin of History: Art after Fabrications of Critique and Culture, September 2015 – January 2016
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Permanent Collection Installation, September 2015 – September 2020
Paris, Passage de Retz, Représenter l'Irreprésentable?, December 2015 – January 2016
Frankfurt, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst , An Imagined Museum: Works from the Centre Pompidou, the Tate and the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, March – September 2016
London, Hauser & Wirth; New York, Andrea Rosen; Milan, Massimo De Carlo, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, May – July 2016
Reading, Reading Prison, Inside. Contemporary Artists and Writers in Reading Prison, September – December 2016
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Permanent Collection Installation, February 2017 - ongoing
North Adams, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, The Half-Life of Love, May 2017 – January 2018
Genevra, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, May – September 2017
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Give and Take: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, March – September 2018
Milan, Massimo De Carlo, MCMXXXIV, March – May 2019
Montpellier, Montpellier Contemporain, Intimate Distance, June – September 2019
Hong Kong, David Zwirner, Singing the Body Electric, July– August 2019
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Oh, Honey...A Queer Reading of the Collection, August 2021 – February 2002
Sint-Martens-Latem, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Blindsight – Manon de Boer in dialogue with Latifa Laâbissi and Laszlo Umbreit, February – May 2022