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A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection

Robert Gober

Untitled (Candle)

Auction Closed

March 9, 09:07 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

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A Life in Art: The Mallin Collection

Robert Gober

b. 1954

Untitled (Candle)


signed R. Gober, dated 1991 and numbered 1/6 (on the edge of the base)

beeswax, string and human hair

8½ by 5 by 6½ in.

21.6 by 12.7 by 16.5 cm.

Executed in 1991, this is number 1 from an edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs.

Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Private Collection, New York 
Sotheby's New York, 14 May 1998, lot 4
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Joan Simon, “Robert Gober: Oeuvres Nouvelles”, Art Press, no. 162, October 1991, p. 42, illustrated
Joan Simon, “Robert Gober et l’Extra Ordinaire/Robert Gober and the Extra Ordinary,” Paris 1991, pp. 23, 62-63, illustrated
Jean-Pierre Criqui, “Robert Gober: Jeu de Paume,” Artforum, January 1992, p. 115
Joan Simon and Catherine David, Robert Gober, Barcelona 1992, no. 13, p. 72, illustrated
Exh. Cat., London, Serpentine Gallery (and traveling), Robert Gober, 1993, no. 6, p. 13, illustrated
Michael Petry, “Abstract Eroticism,” Art & Design Profile, vol. 47, March/April 1996, no. 61, p. 49, illustrated in color
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Robert Gober, 1997, pp. 62-63 (text)
Hal Foster, “An Art of Missing Parts,” 2000, no. 92, pp. 149-150
Exh. Cat., Munich, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst München, Mit Haut und Haaren: Der Körper in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, 2002, pp. 110-111, illustrated in color
Alexander Braun, Robert Gober: Werke von 1976 bis heute, Bonn 2003, no. 102, pp. 241, illustrated in color
Hal Foster, Prosthetic Gods, Cambridge 2004, no. 8.13, p. 317 and 322, illustrated
Theodora Vischer, ed., Robert Gober Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, Basel 2007, no. S 1991.09, pp. 302-303, illustrated in color
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Group Exhibition, September 1991 (another example exhibited)
Paris, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume; Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Robert Gober, October 1991 - March 1992, no. 13, pp. 27 and 81, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Milwaukee, Milwaukee Art Museum, Currents 20/Recent Narrative Sculpture, 1992, no. 6
Hamburg, Kunstverein; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Ethik und Äesthetik im Zeitalter von Aids, May - June 1992, p. 21, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Sheboygan, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Hair, December 1992 - February 1993, no. 14, pp. 6, 31, illustrated in color
Cambridge, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Corporal Politics: Louise Bourgeois, Robert Gober, Lilla LoCurto and William Outcault, Annette Messager, Rona Pondick, Kiki Smith, David Wojnarowicz, December 1992 - February 1993, pp. 17, 26, 41, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
San Francisco, Haines Gallery, Body Parts, 1993 (another example exhibited)
Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zimmer in denen die Zeit nicht zählt: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, June - October 1994, no. 88 (another example exhibited)
Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma/Finnish National Gallery, Ars 95 Helsinki, February - May 1995, no. 107 (another example exhibited)
New York, Sean Kelly Gallery, corpus virtue, September - October 1998 (another example exhibited)
New York, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, Transfiguration, November - December 1998 (another example exhibited)
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Malmö, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, February 1999 – September 2000, pp. 133-134 (another example exhibited)
Munich, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst im Haus der Kunst, Food for the Mind: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, June - October 2000,  no. ABB.S.211, p. 211, illustrated in color
Mount Kisco, The Foundation To-Life, Inc., Exhibition Space, Presence, 2003
Santa Fe, The Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, SITE Santa Fe, Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, July 2004 - January 2005, pp. 60-61 and 134, illustrated in color
Mount Kisco, The Foundation To-Life, Inc., Exhibition Space, Eccentric Modern, March - August 2006 (another example exhibited)
New Canaan, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, WaxWorks, September - October 2006
Purchase, Neuberger Museum of Art, Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life, September 2006 - January 2007, p. 3, illustrated in color
Southampton, The Parrish Art Museum, All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy, August - October 2007, pp. 76-77, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Make Art/Stop AIDS, February - June 2008 (another example exhibited)
Munich, Museum Brandhorst, Group exhibition, 2009 - 2010 (another example exhibited)
Copenhagen, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, WAX - A New Sensualism in Contemporary Sculpture, May - September 2011 (another example exhibited)