Matthew Barney - Contemporary Art Part II New York Friday, May 15, 2009 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

  • Exhibited

    Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Matthew Barney Cremaster 2: The Drone's Exposition, July 18 - October 10, 1999 (alternate format exhibited); Cologne, Museum Ludwig, June 6 - September 1, 2002; Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, October 10 - January 10, 2002 (alternate format exhibited); New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, February 14 - May 11, 2003, Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle (alternate format exhibited)

  • Literature

    R. Flood, Matthew Barney: Cremaster 2, Minneapolis, 1999, n.p. (illustrated); N. Spector, Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle, New York, 2002, p. 511; J. Lingwood, "Artist Project: Matthew Barney," Tate Magazine, issue 2, November - December 2002

  • Catalogue Essay

    The Executioner’s Song is the title of a 1979 novel by Norman Mailer, which featured as its main character Gary Gilmore, one of the principles in Barney's Cremaster Cycle.  Mailer played the Harry Houdini character in Cremaster 2.   

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Cremaster 2: The Executioner’s Song

1998
Laminated c-print in the artist's acrylic frame. 
28 x 24 in. (71.1 x 61 cm) overall.
Signed and dated "Matthew Barney 98" on the reverse of the frame.  This work is from an edition of 40 plus six artist's proofs. 

Estimate
$15,000 - 20,000 

Sold for $18,750

Contemporary Art Part II

15 May 2009, 10am
New York