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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 11, 2015 | Christie's | New York | Eve. Post-War and Contemporary Evening Sale | 58B | $****** - ****** | untitled (to Barnett Newman) four |
sculpture
243.5 x 121.6 x 20 cm (95.88 x 47.88 x 7.88 in)
yellow, blue and red fluorescent light
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Dwan Gallery, untitleds (to Barnett Newman) 1971 from Dan Flavin, March 1971.
Kunsthaus Zurich and Geneva, Musée Rath, Contemporary Art from the FMC Collection: Acquisitions 1977-1986, May 1984-November 1986, p. 27 and cover (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).
St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum and Kassel, Museum Fridericianum, Rot, Gelb, Blau: die Primärfarben in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, March-September 1988, pp. 147 and 180 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Twenty-five Years, Part I, October-November 1993 (another example exhibited).
Lugano, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives, April-June 1994, pp. 43 and 109, no. 24 (another example exhibited and illustrated in color).
Schlossmuseum Weimar, Der Fürst schmollt. Moderne trifft Klassik. Werke aus der Sammlung Paul Maenz, June-July 1994.
Neues Museum Weimar, Neues Museum Weimar: die Sammlung Paul Maenz, January-December 1999, pp. 54-55 and 318, no. 13 (illustrated in color).
New York, David Zwirner Gallery, Dan Flavin: Corners, Barriers and Corridors, September-October 2015 (another example exhibited).
W. Domingo, “New York Galleries: Dan Flavin at Dwan,” Arts Magazine, v. 45, no. 6, April 1971, p. 82 (illustrated).<br>C. Ratcliff, “Reviews and Previews,” Art News, v. 70, no. 2, April 1971, p. 12.<br>Drawings and Diagrams from Dan Flavin 1963-1972, exh. cat., St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 1973, p. 76.<br>M. Govan and T. Bell, eds., Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961-1996, New York, 2004, p. 297, no. 269 (diagram illustrated in color).<br>Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Dan Flavin, exh. cat., Kunstmuseum Basel Ostfildern, 2013, p. 141, no. 38 (another example illustrated in color).
this work is number one from an edition of five, of which only three were fabricated during the artist's lifetime, and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
