Robert Gober - 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session New York Wednesday, November 14, 2018 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    The Artist
    Josh Baer Gallery, The Andrew Glover Youth Program Benefit Auction, New York, November 1990
    Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

  • Exhibited

    New York, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Robert Gober, Craigie Horsfield and Lawrence Weiner, June 9 – July 27, 1990 (another example exhibited)
    New York, Josh Baer Gallery, The Andrew Glover Youth Program Benefit Exhibition, November 2-15, 1990
    New York, Jack Tilton Gallery, Forbidden Games, January 3 – February 2, 1991 (another example exhibited)
    Kassel, Documenta IX, June 13 - September 20, 1992 (another example exhibited)
    New York, Wooster Gardens, Les Enfants Terribles, July 31, 1992 (another example exhibited)
    Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Portrait, Still Life, Landscape: A Selection by Robert Wilson from the Collections of the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, May 16 - July 11, 1993, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Ridgefield, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Fall From Fashion, May 23 - September 26, 1993, pp. 78-79 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Ridgefield, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 30 Years: Art in the Present Tense. The Aldrich's Curatorial History, 1964-1994, May 15 - September 18, 1994, n.p. (another example exhibited)
    Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zimmer in denen die Zeit nicht zählt: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, June 5 - October 19, 1994 (another example exhibited)
    New York, Curt Marcus Gallery and Timothy Baum, Sculpture as Objects: 1915-1995, April 28 – May 28, 1995, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Kunsthalle Zürich, Playpen & Corpus Delirium, October 5 - December 29, 1996 (another example exhibited)
    Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Emotion - Junge britische und amerikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Goetz/Young British and American Art from the Goetz Collection, October 30, 1998 - January 17, 1999, pp. 114, 182 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Malmö, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Gober: Sculpture + Drawing, February 14, 1999 - September 5, 2000, pp. 119, 132 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    New York, Sara Meltzer's On View, I'm the Boss of Myself, May 5 – June 12, 1999 (another example exhibited)
    Baltimore, The Contemporary Museum, IMPACT: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art, September 25, 1999 - January 3, 2000 (another example exhibited)
    Munich, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst im Haus der Kunst, Food for the Mind: Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, June 9 - October 8, 2000, pp. 218, 248 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    New York, 48 Wall Street, Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture, June 14 - September 15, 2002 (another example exhibited)
    Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Artist's Gifts, June 22 - August 3, 2003 (another example exhibited)
    Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Mixed-up Childhood, February 24 - May 22, 2005, pp. 67, 170 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Oudenburg, Foundation De Elf Lijnen, Un salon pour Louise Bourgeois, December 17, 2006 – February 17, 2007, pp. 90-91 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Toronto, Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Dead! Dead! Dead!, April 1, 2007 – April 2008 (another example exhibited)
    Charlotte, The Mint Museums, Contemporary, Cool and Collected, October 20 – December 30, 2007, pp. 60-61 (another example exhibited and illustrated)
    Deurle, Belgium, Museum Dohndt-Dhaenens, Absence is the Highest Form of Presence, October 4 – November 29, 2009 (another example exhibited)

  • Literature

    Alexander Braun, Robert Gober: Werke von 1976 bis heute, Nuremberg, 2003, p. 273 (another example illustrated)
    Theodora Vischer, ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, Basel, 2007, pp. 264-265 (another example illustrated)

Ο337

Untitled (Red Shoe)

signed, numbered and dated "Gober 90 2/35" on the underside
pigmented wax
3 x 7 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (7.6 x 19.7 x 7 cm.)
Executed in 1990, this work is number 2 from an edition of 35 plus 6 artist's proofs.

Another work from the edition is housed in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Estimate
$40,000 - 60,000 

Sold for $62,500

Contact Specialist
Rebekah Bowling
Head of Day Sale, Afternoon Session
New York
+ 1 212 940 1250
rbowling@phillips.com

20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session

New York Auction 14 November 2018