Details
NAN GOLDIN (B. 1953)
Robert and Greer on the Bed, 1982
signed 'Nan Goldin' (on a label affixed to the reverse)
chromogenic print mounted on Dibond
16 x 24in. (40.6 x 61cm.)
Executed in 1982, unnumbered proof aside from a later edition of twenty-five
Provenance
Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired directly from the artist).
Literature
M. Holborn, ‘Nan Goldin’s Ballad of Sexual Dependency’, in Aperture, no. 103, Summer 1986 (another version illustrated in colour, p. 41).
N. Goldin, M. Heiferman and M. Holborn (eds.), The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, New York 1996, p.4 (another version illustrated in colour, pp. 2-3).
N. Goldin, ‘A Rebel Whose Dolls Embodied Her Demons’, in The New York Times, 22 December 1996 (illustrated, p. 48).
N. Goldin and T. Kawachi, Nan Goldin: Couples and Loneliness, Kyoto 1999 (another version illustrated in colour, p.16).
G. Costa, Nan Goldin, London 2010, p. 41 (another version illustrated in colour, pp. 38-39).
Exhibited
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, 1993 (another version exhibited).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your Mirror, 1996 – 1997, p. 465 (another version exhibited, illustrated in colour, pp. 176-177). This exhibition later travelled to Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum and Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur.
Philadelphia, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, Fantastic Tales: The Photography of Nan Goldin, 2005-2006, no. 7, fig. 9, pp. 9,11-13, 26, 46 and 87 (another version illustrated in colour, front cover, pp. 10, 47; illustrated, p. 27).
FURTHER DETAILS
Other versions are in the permanent collections of the Tate Modern, London and the Guggenheim, New York.
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