On Kawara - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

  • Catalogue Essay

    Blank rectangles with no-nonsense text, as soon as they are finished the Date Paintings are like gravestones, memorials for the time it took to make them.  They make the same sense as the graffito, ‘I was here’, written in the past tense as the writer projects himself into the future, somewhere else, and this trace of a here/now-ness is left to be encountered by someone else.   J. Watkins, On Kawara, Phaidon, New York, 2002, p. 87

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19.OKT.1976

1976

Acrylic on canvas with artist’s cardboard box and newspaper clipping.

Canvas: 10 1/4 x 13 1/8 in. (26 x 33.5 cm); box: 10 1/2 x 13 3/8 x 2 7/8 in. (26.7 x 68.9 cm).

Signed “On Kawara” on the reverse of canvas.

Estimate
$250,000 - 350,000 

Sold for $361,000

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York