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A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection
Robert Gober
Bag of Donuts
Auction Closed
March 9, 09:07 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection
Robert Gober
b. 1954
Bag of Donuts
signed R. Gober and dated 1989 (on the underside of the bag)
paper, dough and rhoplex
11 by 6¼ by 6 in.
27.9 by 15.9 by 15.2 cm.
Executed in 1989, this work is number 3 from an edition of 8.
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1998, lot 4
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Private Collection, New York
Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1998, lot 4
Acquired from the above in 1998 by the present owner
Stephan Götz, American Artists in their New York Studios: Conversations About the Creation of Contemporary Art, Cambridge 1992, pp. 62-63, illustrated in color
Ian Chilvers, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, Oxford 1998, p. 224 (text)
Hal Foster, Design and Crime and Other Diatribes, New York 2002, p. 132 (text)
Martha Bushkirk, The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art, Cambridge 2003, pp. 143, 145, 147-149, illustrated
Hal Foster, Prosthetic Gods, Cambridge 2004, p. 326, illustrated in installation at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Ian Chilvers, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, Oxford 1998, p. 224 (text)
Hal Foster, Design and Crime and Other Diatribes, New York 2002, p. 132 (text)
Martha Bushkirk, The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art, Cambridge 2003, pp. 143, 145, 147-149, illustrated
Hal Foster, Prosthetic Gods, Cambridge 2004, p. 326, illustrated in installation at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Robert Gober, September - October 1989 (another example exhibited)
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen and Kunsthalle Bern, Robert Gober, May - October 1990, pp. 12, 79, 81, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Robert Gober, October 1991 - March 1992, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Sevilla, Pabellón de España, Last Days, April - May 1992, illustrated, (another example exhibited)
London, Serpentine Gallery; Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Rober Gober, March - August 1992, pp. 29, 32 and 49, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Robert Gober, September - December 1997, p. 64, illustrated (another example exhibited)
The Chicago Cultural Center, Reality Bites: Approaches to Representation in American Sculpture, April - June 1998 (another example exhibited)
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Emotion - Young British and American Artists from the Goetz Collection, 1998-1999, illustrated
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Malmö, Rooseum; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, February 1999 - September 2000, p. 17, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Pleasures of Collecting: Part II, 20th Century & Contemporary Art, 2003
New York, George Adams Gallery, In the Eye of the Beholder, February - March 2003
New York, Dickinson Roundell, Aftershock: The Legacy of the Readymade in Post-War and Contemporary American Art, May - June 2003, no.45, pp. 102-103, illustrated in color
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, The Big Eat in Art, January 2003 - April 2004, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Part Object Part Sculpture, October 2005 - February 2006, p. 239, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, September 2006 - January 2007, p. 14, illustrated
Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen and Kunsthalle Bern, Robert Gober, May - October 1990, pp. 12, 79, 81, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Robert Gober, October 1991 - March 1992, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Sevilla, Pabellón de España, Last Days, April - May 1992, illustrated, (another example exhibited)
London, Serpentine Gallery; Liverpool, Tate Gallery, Rober Gober, March - August 1992, pp. 29, 32 and 49, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Robert Gober, September - December 1997, p. 64, illustrated (another example exhibited)
The Chicago Cultural Center, Reality Bites: Approaches to Representation in American Sculpture, April - June 1998 (another example exhibited)
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Emotion - Young British and American Artists from the Goetz Collection, 1998-1999, illustrated
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Malmö, Rooseum; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, February 1999 - September 2000, p. 17, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Greenwich, Bruce Museum, Pleasures of Collecting: Part II, 20th Century & Contemporary Art, 2003
New York, George Adams Gallery, In the Eye of the Beholder, February - March 2003
New York, Dickinson Roundell, Aftershock: The Legacy of the Readymade in Post-War and Contemporary American Art, May - June 2003, no.45, pp. 102-103, illustrated in color
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, The Big Eat in Art, January 2003 - April 2004, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Columbus, Wexner Center for the Arts, Part Object Part Sculpture, October 2005 - February 2006, p. 239, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, September 2006 - January 2007, p. 14, illustrated