"Untitled", 1994
Five gelatin silver prints in artist’s frame. 25 1/2 x 32 7/8 in. (64.8 x 83.5 cm) each; 25 1/2 x 176 3/8 in. (64.8 x 448 cm) overall.
This work is from an edition of two plus one artist’s proof. A Certificate of Authenticity issued by The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation in 2009 will accompany this work.
PROVENANCE Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Lambert Art Collection, Geneva
EXHIBITED Hannover, Sprengel Museum, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, June 1 - August 24, 1997 (another example exhibited); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, September 6 - November 16, 1997 (another example exhibited); Esslingen,Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Photography as Concept: 4th International Foto-Triennale, June 28 - September 6, 1998 (another example exhibited); Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, September 12 - November 1, 1998 (another example exhibited); Seattle, Henry Art Gallery, the University of Washington, June 14 - September 21, 2003; West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, October 18 - December 28, 2003; Tampa Museum of Art, January 25 - April 11, 2004; and Chicago Cultural Center, April 24 -June 27, 2004, Crosscurrents at Century's End: Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art Collection (another example exhibited); San Francisco, Fraenkel Gallery, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, April 1 - May 29, 2004
LITERATURE N. Spector, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, New York, 1995, p. 40 (detail illustrated); D. Elger, ed., Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit,1997; p. 133, no. 266 (illustrated); M. Danoff and H. L. Steiger, ed., Crosscurrents at Century's End: Selections From the Neuberger Berman Art Collection, New York, 2003, pp. 48, 49 (illustrated); L. Lawler, Twice Untitled and Other Pictures (looking back), Columbus, 2006, cover (detail of reverse illustrated)
"As an artist whose work exemplifies understatement, Gonzalez-Torres employs an extreme economy of visual means for the dual purposes of enticing and challenging his viewers. The seduction occurs at the level of its pure formal beauty; the simple elegance of the work...
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