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BRUCE NAUMAN (B. 1941)
Untitled (Crossbeams)
(i) incised with the artist's signature and date and stamped with the number 'B. Nauman 85 A/B 20/25' (on the underside)
(ii) stamped with the artist's initials and number 'BN B/B 20/25' (on the underside)
cast iron with grit blast finish, in two parts
each: 5 x 8512 x 412in. (12.7 x 217.3 x 11.5cm.)
overall: 978 x 8512 x 8512in. (25 x 217.3 x 217.3cm.)
Executed in 1986, this work is number twenty from an edition of twenty-five
Provenance
Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
N.N. Benezra, K. Halbreich, P. Schimmel, Bruce Nauman, Minneapolis 1987, no. 373 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 306).
D. Buchholz, International Index of Multiples, Tokyo 1993 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 143).
N. Benezra, et. al., Bruce Nauman: exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonné, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1994, no. 373 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 306).
Exhibited
New York, Castelli Graphics and the Lorence - Monk Gallery, Bruce Nauman: Prints 1970-89, 1989 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 128). This exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Donald Young Gallery.
New York, Brooke Alexander Editions, Selected Multiples, 1989, no. 175 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, unpaged).
New York, Hirschl and Adler Modern, Multiples, 1990 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated, p. 37).
Berlin, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Bruce Nauman, 1996 (another from the edition exhibited).
Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Bruce Nauman: Dream Passage, 2010, no. 28, p. 210 (illustrated in colour, p. 114).
Madrid, Galeria La Caja Negra, Bruce Nauman: Infrared Outtakes, Soft Ground Etchings, and Crossbeams, 2012 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated).
Brussels, Maruani Mercier, 1986, 2020-2021 (another from the edition exhibited).
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