Robert Gober - Contemporary Art Part I New York Thursday, November 15, 2007 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

  • Exhibited

    New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Exhibition to Benefit the Robert Mapplethorpe laboratory for AIDS Research New England Deaconess Hospital, January 10 -January 20,1993 (another example exhibited); Bignan, Domain de Kerguéhennec, De la mainà la tête, l’objet théoretique, May 1 - September 19, 1993 (another example exhibited);Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Szenenweschel V/Change of Scene V,January 28 - May 15, 1994 (another example exhibited); Milan, Claudia Gian Ferrari ArteContemporanea, Nudo & crudo: corpo sensibile, corpo visibile, January 25 - March 16, 1996(another example exhibited); New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Views fromabroad: European Perspectives on American Art 2, October 18, 1996 - January 5, 1997(another example exhibited); Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Moderne Kunst, DieEntdeckung des anderen: Ein europäischer Blick auf die amerikanische Kunst 2, January 31 -May 4, 1997 (another example exhibited); New York, Museum of Modern Art, On the Edge:Contemporary Art from the Werner & Elaine Danheisser Collection, September 30, 1997 -January 20, 1998 (another example exhibited); Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Emotion -Junge britische und amerikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Goetz/Young British andAmerican Art from the Goetz Collection, October 30 1998 - January 17, 1999 (anotherexample exhibited); Bordeaux, capc-Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Présuméinnocents, l’art contemporain et l’enfance/Presumed innocent, Contemporary Art andChildhood, June 8 -October 1, 2000 (another example exhibited); St. Gallen, SammlungHauser und Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen, The Oldest Possible Memory, May 14 -October 15, 2000 (another example exhibited); New York, The Museum of Modern Art, OpenEnds: Innocence and Experience, September 28, 2000 -January 2, 2001 (another exampleexhibited); Frankfurt am Main, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Szenenweschel XVIII/Change of Scene XVIII, September 29, 2000 -March 4, 2001 (another example exhibited); Santa Fe, The Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, SITE Santa Fe, Disparities and Deformations: OurGrotesque., July 18, 2004 - January 2005 (another example exhibited); Santander, FundaciónMarcelino Botín, Blancanieves y los siete enanitos: una exposición sobre la presencia delblanco acompañado de un poco de rojo y una pizca de negro/Snow White and the SevenDwarfs: an exhibition on the presence of white accompanied by some red and a little black,April 28 - June 26, 2005 (another example exhibited); Frankfurt am Main, Museum fürModerne Kunst, Spinning the web. The Ebay-Connection, September 24, 2005 - January 9,2006 (another example exhibited); Southampton, The Parrish Art Museum, All the More Real,August 12 - October 24, 2007 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature


    M. Kramer, To Fix the Image in Memory/dem Bild Einen festen Platz im Gedächtnis verleihen, New York/Frankfurt, 1996, pp. 137 -160; E. Meyer-Hermann, Reservoir, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2000, pp. 2-9;
    J. Ammann, “Von der Schwerkraft der Skulptor”, Katarina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Frankfurt, 2001, pp. 9–10; M. Kramer,  “Robert Gobers Drain Man –Eine Werkbetrachtung”, Für Jean-Christophe Ammann. Festschrift, Frankfurt, 2001, pp. 216-219., H. Schwebel, “Katharina Fritsch und Robert Gober”, Katharina Fritsch, Robert Gober, Frankfurt, pp. 11-13; M. Schneede, Mit Haut und Haaren. Der Körper in der seitgenössischen Kunst, Cologne, 2002; R. Storr, Prière de (ne pas) toucher, Paris, 1995, pp. 330-337; T. Vischer, Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979 -2007, Basel, 2007, p. 337 (illustrated).

     

17

Untitled

1992
Beeswax and human hair.
3 x 7 1/2 x 2 5/8 in. (7.6 x 19.1 x 6.7 cm).
Signed and dated “R. Gober ‘92” and numbered of 15 on the underside. This work is from an edition of 15 plus three artist’s proofs.

Estimate
$150,000 - 200,000 

Sold for $241,000

Contemporary Art Part I

15 Nov 2007, 7pm
New York