Contemporary Evening Auction
Contemporary Evening Auction
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Deep Basin Sink
Auction Closed
November 16, 02:02 AM GMT
Estimate
2,000,000 - 3,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer
Robert Gober
b. 1954
Deep Basin Sink
signed, titled and dated 1984 (on the reverse)
plaster, wire lath, wood and semi-gloss enamel paint
26 by 29 by 24 in. 66 by 73.7 by 70 cm.
Executed in 1984.
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Oregon Community Foundation, Portland (acquired from the above in 1985)
Sotheby's New York, 14 November 2000, lot 5 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen (and traveling), Robert Gober, 1990, p. 53, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Robert Gober, 1997, p. 45, illustrated in color (installed in New York, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, 1985)
Exh. Cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center (and traveling), Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, 1999-2000, p. 11
Carol Vogel, "10 Records in Contemporary Art Are Set at Sotheby's," The New York Times, 15 November 2000 (online)
Souren Melikian, "Auction: Contemporary Records," The New York Times, 16 November 2000 (online)
George Howell, "Object/Installation: The Two Sides of Robert Gober," Sculpture Magazine, June 2001, pp. 40-45
Richard Marshall and Liz Kotz, Jack Pierson: Desire Despair, Michigan, 2006, fig. 6, p. 19, illustrated
Theodora Vischer, ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, Basel, 2007, no. S 1984.09, pp. 76-77, illustrated in color
Zahid Sardar, "Dialogues with Art above the Golden Gate," Western Interiors and Design, July-August 2004, pp. 92-101
Morgan Falconer, "The Man Who Wasn't There," Art Review, March 2005, p. 31
Wendy Cromwell, "A Glimpse Through the Keyhole," Art on Paper, May-June 2005, p. 20
Rebecca Firestone, "Gary Hutton: Becoming an Art Collector," The Architects' Take, 26 February 2011, illustrated in color (online) (installed in Chara Schreyer's residence, Marin)
Thomas Micchelli, "Robert Gober's Unanswered Questions," Hyperallergic, 18 October 2014 (online)
Dennis Kardon, "Pictorial Baggage: Dennis Kardon on Robert Gober," Artcritical, 12 November 2014 (online)
Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer & Gary Hutton, New York, 2016, illustrated in color (on the cover) and pp. 16, 21, 23, 218, illustrated in color (installed in Chara Schreyer's residence, Marin)
Lorna Koski, "Dream Duo: New Book Details Collaboration of Chara Schreyer and Gary Hutton," Women's Wear Daily, 3 October 2016, illustrated in color (online) (installed in Chara Schreyer's residence, Marin)
Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York, 2021, p. 103, illustrated in color and pp. 26, 415
Camille Freestone, "This Stunning Home Is The Perfect Synthesis Of Curation & Design," Coveteur, 2 February 2022, illustrated in color (online) (installed in Chara Schreyer's residence, Marin)
Elizabeth Fazzare, "Chara Schreyer Makes Strange with Her Art Collection in Tiburon, California," Cultured Magazine, 11 February 2022, illustrated in color (online) (installed in Chara Schreyer's residence, Marin)
Los Angeles, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Robert Gober, February - March 1985
Portland Art Museum, Object Lessons, May - July 1991
New York, Museum of Modern Art, The Heart is Not a Metaphor, October 2014 - January 2015