Provenance
Peter Bonnier Gallery, New York; Sale: Christie’s, New York, Post -War And Contemporary Art Afternoon Session, May 14, 2008, lot 382; Acquired from the above by the present owner
Catalogue Essay
It isn’t necessary for a work to have a lot of things to look at, to compare, to analyze one by one, to contemplate. The thing as a whole, its quality as a whole, is what is interesting. The main things are alone and are more intense, clear and powerful. They are not diluted by an inherited format, variations of a form, mild contrasts and connecting parts and areas.

DONALD JUDD

(Donald Judd in N. Serota, ed., Donald Judd, London, 2004)

“Cor-ten steel introduced a brown color with a velvety surface into Judd’s palette, which inspired him to explore new territory and to create works that, in contrast to the metals used hitherto, absorb rather than radiate light. Corten has an evenly matt, slightly grainy surface in a warm mid-brown. Judd perceived it more as a color than as a material — unlike galvanized iron or aluminum, for instance — and it was this quality that stimulated his sense of color and led him to produce single and multi-part works that revolve around the color of Cor-ten.” (N. Serota, Donald Judd, London, 2004, p. 241).

In Untitled (Donaldson 90-3) Donald Judd has chosen to render his signature stack in the weathered steel of Cor-ten, pitting it against starkly contrasting black Plexiglas. In doing so, he lends his piece a defined material duality to the vertical composition. The six separate boxes arranged in a parallel scheme stands nearly ten feet tall before the viewer. As one peers into each of the separate boxes, they see a dark background, from the effect of the Plexiglass, surrounded by two attached, open-ended Cor-ten cubes. By instituting this material variation in the three-dimensional work, one’s appreciation expands from delighting in Judd’s spatial play to admiring the widening format in which the spatial play manifests itself. Judd’s piece becomes, then, not only a study of the interaction of materials and the space that they create or destroy, but of the impact of the very crucial element of light and reflection. The non-reflective and light absorbent surface of Cor-ten seems to allow delineate an entry into the separate units.

Judd’s piece can be seen as an exploration of both positive and negative space as the distance between the units creates a daunting illusion of limitlessness, extending the regular visual form of Brancusi’s Endless Column. As he stated in reference to the articulation of space, “Space is made by an artist or architect; it is not found and packaged. It is made by thought” (Judd, “Some Aspects of Color in General and Red and Black in Particular,” p. 145). If it is Judd’s mind that has created the spaces we see before us, it is our own that lends them their particular infinity. The current lot, and those in its form that both predate and follow it, bore Judd’s label of “specific object”. By this term, Judd supposed them independent of both painting and sculpture. As a separate artistic project, they carry with them incredible conceptual weight; their mission is not only to demonstrate and exhibit, but also to imply and suggest as well. Here, in Untitled (Donaldson 90-3), we see this conceptual weight in both medium and form, the one deceptively simple and the other seemingly boundless.
Artist Biography
Donald Judd
American • 1928 - 1994
Donald Judd came to critical acclaim in the 1960s with his simple, yet revolutionary, three-dimensional floor and wall objects made from new industrial materials, such as anodized aluminum, plywood and Plexiglas, which had no precedent in the visual arts. His oeuvre is characterized by the central constitutive elements of color, material and space. Rejecting the illusionism of painting and seeking an aesthetic freed from metaphorical associations, Judd sought to explore the relationship between art object, viewer and surrounding space with his so-called "specific objects." From the outset of his three-decade-long career, Judd delegated the fabrication to specialized technicians. Though associated with the minimalist movement, Judd did not wish to confine his practice to this categorization.

Inspired by architecture, the artist also designed and produced his own furniture, predominantly in wood, and eventually hired a diverse team of carpenters late in his career.
View More Works

35

Donald Judd

Untitled 90-3 Donaldson

1990
Cor-ten steel and black Plexiglas in six parts.
Overall 118 1/8 x 19 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. (300 x 48.9 x 25.1 cm). Each 9 7/8 x 19 1/4 x 9 7/8 in. (25.1 x 48.9 x 25.1 cm.)

Estimate
$2,000,000 - 3,000,000

Sold for $2,098,500

Contemporary Art Part I

12 May 2011
New York

1
Jacob Kassay
Untitled
Estimate $60,000 - 80,000
Sold for $290,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
2
Urs Fischer
Cup / Cigarettes / Skid
Estimate $200,000 - 300,000
Sold for $290,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
3
Wade Guyton
Untitled
Estimate $200,000 - 300,000
Sold for $422,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
4
Thomas Houseago
Untitled
Estimate $80,000 - 120,000
Sold for $98,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
5
Albert Oehlen
Panza de Burro
Estimate $250,000 - 350,000
Sold for $506,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
6
Glenn Brown
Filth
Estimate $1,500,000 - 2,500,000
Sold for $2,546,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
7
Ed Ruscha
Inferno
Estimate $1,500,000 - 2,000,000
Sold for $2,210,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
8
Andy Warhol
Liz #5 (Early Colored Liz)
Estimate On Request
Sold for $26,962,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
9
Damien Hirst
Night Follows Day
Estimate $1,200,000 - 1,800,000
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
10
Mark Grotjahn
Untitled (White Butterfly)
Estimate $300,000 - 400,000
Sold for $422,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
11
Christopher Wool
Untitled (F48)
Estimate $800,000 - 1,200,000
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
12
Cady Noland
SLA Group Shot # 4
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
Sold for $722,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
13
Cindy Sherman
Untitled Film Still #9
Estimate $400,000 - 600,000
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
14
Richard Prince
Wayward Nurse (Crashed)
Estimate $4,000,000 - 6,000,000
Sold for $4,562,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
15
Christopher Wool
Untitled (P522)
Estimate $800,000 - 1,200,000
Sold for $902,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
16
Lisa Yuskavage
Northview (Impressionist Jacket)
Estimate $1,000,000 - 1,500,000
Sold for $1,082,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
17
Thomas Schütte
United Enemies
Estimate $1,000,000 - 1,500,000
Sold for $1,022,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
18
Marlene Dumas
Evil Eye
Estimate $900,000 - 1,200,000
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
19
Gerhard Richter
Abstraktes Bild
Estimate $3,000,000 - 4,000,000
Sold for $4,114,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
20
Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol
Third Eye
Estimate $2,000,000 - 3,000,000
Sold for $7,026,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
21
Andy Warhol
Flowers
Estimate $8,000,000 - 12,000,000
Sold for $8,146,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
22
Mark Rothko
Untitled (Red and Orange on Salmon)
Estimate $3,000,000 - 4,000,000
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
23
Roy Lichtenstein
Still life with Mirror
Estimate $6,000,000 - 8,000,000
Sold for $6,578,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
24
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Untitled (Lung)
Estimate $3,500,000 - 4,500,000
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
25
Andy Warhol
Mao (Mao 10)
Estimate $3,500,000 - 4,500,000
Sold for $4,002,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
26
Alighiero Boetti
Mappa (planisphère)
Estimate $1,300,000 - 1,800,000
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
27
Robert Indiana
LOVE
Estimate $1,200,000 - 1,800,000
Sold for $1,314,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
28
George Condo
The Nudist Couple
Estimate $500,000 - 700,000
Sold for $842,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
29
Andy Warhol
Witch
Estimate $1,800,000 - 2,500,000
Sold for $2,658,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
30
Richard Prince
Untitled Joke Painting
Estimate $350,000 - 450,000
Sold for $782,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
31
David Hockney
30 Sunflowers
Estimate $1,500,000 - 2,500,000
Sold for $2,546,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
32
Georgia O'Keeffe
Yellow Jonquils IV
Estimate $2,000,000 - 3,000,000
Sold for $2,210,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
33
Joan Mitchell
Gouise
Estimate $1,500,000 - 2,000,000
Sold for $1,874,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
34
Ellsworth Kelly
Green White
Estimate $3,000,000 - 4,000,000
Sold for $3,554,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
35
Donald Judd
Untitled 90-3 Donaldson
Estimate $2,000,000 - 3,000,000
Sold for $2,098,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
36
Robert Ryman
Summary
Estimate $500,000 - 700,000
Sold for $782,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
37
Robert Morris
Untitled
Estimate $300,000 - 500,000
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
38
Rudolf Stingel
Untitled
Estimate $500,000 - 700,000
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
39
Richard Tuttle
Light Brown, Dark Brown
Estimate $250,000 - 350,000
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
40
Claes Oldenburg
SCREWARCH MODEL
Estimate $250,000 - 350,000
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
41
John Chamberlain
Popsicletoes
Estimate $600,000 - 800,000
Sold for $602,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
42
Damien Hirst
Tranquility
Estimate $1,200,000 - 1,500,000
Sold for $1,202,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
43
Cindy Sherman
Untitled #422
Estimate $300,000 - 500,000
Sold for $350,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
44
Takashi Murakami
Magic Ball 2 (Nega)
Estimate $600,000 - 800,000
Sold for $842,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
45
Andreas Gursky
Brasilia Plenarsaal II
Estimate $500,000 - 700,000
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
46
Ugo Rondinone
No. 339 Vierterjunizweitausendundvier
Estimate $150,000 - 200,000
Sold for $194,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
47
This lot is no longer available.
48
Keith Haring
Untitled (Boxers)
Estimate $250,000 - 350,000
Sold for $362,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
49
George Condo
The Housekeeper’s Diary
Estimate $200,000 - 250,000
Sold for $302,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
50
Kelley Walker
Black Star Press
Estimate $150,000 - 200,000
Sold for $314,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.
51
Kelley Walker and Wade Guyton
Coconut Chandelier (# 25)
Estimate $30,000 - 50,000
Sold for $74,500
Create your first list.
Select an existing list or create a new list to share and manage lots you follow.

Contemporary Art Part I

12 May 2011 New York

Create your first list.

Provenance

Catalogue Essay

Artist Biography

Donald Judd

35

Donald Judd

Untitled 90-3 Donaldson

Contemporary Art Part I

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

Create your first list.

12 May 2011
New York