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Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Bruce Nauman

Good Boy, Bad Boy

Auction Closed

November 16, 11:16 PM GMT

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer

Bruce Nauman

b. 1941


Good Boy, Bad Boy

2 videotapes with color and sound and 2 TVs

each TV: 23 by 30 by 21 in.

58.4 by 76.2 by 53.3 cm.

Executed in 1985, this work is number 36 from an edition of 40.


This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

Private Collection
Christie's New York, 4 May 1995, lot 258
Acquired from the above by the present owner 
Coosje van Bruggen, Bruce Nauman, New York, 1988, p. 282, illustrated 
Chris Dercon, "Keep Taking It Apart: A Conversation with Bruce Nauman," Parkett 10, 1986, pp. 60 and 61, illustrated
Bruce Nauman, Please Pay Attention Please: Bruce Nauman's Words. Writings and Interviews, New York, 2003, no. 2.5, p. 95, illustrated 
Eugene Blume, Bruce Nauman, New York, 2010, no. 2, n.p., illustrated in color 
Peter Plagens, Bruce Nauman: The True Artist, London, 2014, p. 176, illustrated in color 
Krefeld, Museum Haus Esters, Video, Sound and Neon, September - December 1985
Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, Bruce Nauman: Prints 1970-1989, September - October 1989, p. 129, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Frankfurt am Main, Städtische Galerie, Städelsches Kunstinstitut and Lausanne, Musée Contonal des Beaux-Arts, Bruce Nauman: Skulpturen und installationen 1985-1990, September 1990 - January 1992, no. 1, p. 25, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Toronto, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Bruce Nauman, May 1992 - March 1993 (another example exhibited)
Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrunderts, Wiener Diwan: Sigmund Freud Heute, May - July 1989 (another example exhibited)
Milwaukee Art Museum, The Pleasure Machine: Recent American Video, June - August 1991
New York, Galerie Lelong, Bourgeois, Jaar, Kounellis, Solano, Tapies, Nauman, April - May 1992 (another example exhibited)
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Aanwinsten/Acquisitions: 1985-1993, December 1992 - February 1993, p. 289, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Madrid, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia; Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and New York, Museum of Modern Art, Bruce Nauman, November 1993 - May 1995, no. 337, p. 295, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou; London, Hayward Gallery; Helsinki, The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Bruce Nauman, May 1997 - January 1999, pp. 98 and 101, illustrated (another example exhibited)
London, Tate Modern, Bruce Nauman: Raw Materials, October 2004 - March 2005, nos. 16 and 17, pp. 56-57, 110-130 and 139, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Tate Liverpool and Naples, Museo d'Arte contemporanea Donnaregina, Bruce Nauman: Make Me Think Me, May 2006 - October 2007, pp. 15 and 93, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
Berlin, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Banhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Bruce Nauman: Dream Passage, May - October 2010, no. 2, pp. 58-59 and 205, illustrated in color (another example exhibited) 
Schaulager Basel; New York, Museum of Modern Art and MOMA PS1, Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts, March 2018 - March 2019, no. 1, pp. 70-71 and 298, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)
London, Tate, Permanent Collection, 1994 - present (another example exhibited)