Details
Jeff Wall (b. 1946)
Outburst (from In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive and You Were Full of Joy...)
signed with the artist's initials, numbered and dated 'JW 89/91 24/25' (on the reverse)
azo dye print
1818 x 2418 in. (46 x 61.3 cm.)
Executed in 1989. This work is number twenty-four from an edition of twenti-five published by Photographers + Friends United Against AIDS, New York.
Provenance
Wooster Gardens, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1996
Literature
J.B. Joly, ed., Die Photographie in der zeitgenössiscehn Kunst, Stuttgart, 1990, p. 63.
R. Ferguson, Jeff Wall, Los Angeles, 1997, p. 99 (illustrated).
R. Lauer, Jeff Wall: Figures and Places – Selected Works from 1978-2000, Munich, 2001, p. 181 (illustrated).
T. Vischer and H. Naef, eds., Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonné 1978-2004, Göttingen, 2005, p. 320, no. 32a.
Exhibited
New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, Jeff Wall, September 1989-October 1989 (another example exhibited).
Vancouver Art Gallery and Art Gallery of Ontario, Jeff Wall 1990, 1990 (another example exhibited).
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum of Art, Forum 1, November 1990-January 1991 (another example exhibited).
New York, Robert Miller Gallery, In a Dream: A Limited Edition Portfolio, May-June 1991 (another example exhibited).
San Diego, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Work of Jeff Wall, November 1991-January 1992 (another example exhibited).
Norfolk, Norwich Gallery, Renegotiations: Class, Modernity, Photography, 1993 (another example exhibited).
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofía, Jeff Wall, September-November 1994 (another example exhibited).
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art; Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Mito, Art Tower Mito, Jeff Wall, December 1997-March 1998, p. 96 (another example illustrated).
London, Tate Modern, Jeff Wall: Photographs 1978-2004, October 2005-January 2006, p. 95 (another example illustrated).
Vancouver Art Gallery, Jeff Wall: Hometown Hers, October 2008-January 2009 (another example exhibited).
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