On Kawara

Seventy-two postcards, January 1969–January 1977, from I Got Up, 1968–79

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

On Kawara

1932 - 2014

Seventy-two postcards, January 1969 - January 1977, from I Got Up, 1968-79

each: stamped with the artist's name, titled and dated (on the verso)

ink on mailed postcard, in seventy-two parts

smallest: 9 by 14.1 cm. 3½ by 5½ in.

largest: 10.5 by 14.9 cm. 4⅛ by 5⅞ in.

Executed between January 1969 and January 1977.

This work is accompanied by documentation for all exhibitions in which the postcards appeared.

Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist by 1976)

Christie's, New York, 16 November 2001, lot 437

Private Collection

Christie's, New York, 11 November 2009, lot 342

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Venice, Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, Attualità Internazionali '72-76, July - October 1976, p. 337 (partially exhibited)

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, The 73rd American Exhibition, June - August 1979 (partially exhibited)

Stockholm, Moderna Museet; Essen, Museum Folkwang; Eindhoven, Van Abbenmuseum and Osaka, The National Museum of Art, ON KAWARA: continuity/discontinuity 1963-1979, October 1980 - June 1981, p. 110, illustrated (installation view) (partially exhibited)

Berlin, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, On Kawara 1976 Berlin 1986, January - February 1987, pp. 74-121, illustrated in colour (partially exhibited)

Villleurbanne, Institut d'Art Contemporain; Turin, Castello di Rivoli; Barcelona, Museum of Contemporary Art; Villeneuve, Musée d'Art d'Ascq and Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Whole and Past: 1964-1995, November 1996 - April 1998 (partially exhibited)