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Property from the collects ion of the Felix González-Torres Family

Felix González-Torres

"Untitled" (March 5th) #2

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600,000 - 800,000 USD

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Property from the collects ion of the Felix González-Torres Family

Felix González-Torres

1957 - 1996

"Untitled" (March 5th) #2


Light bulbs, porcelain light sockets, and electrical cords

113 in. in height

287 cm.

Executed in 1991, this work is number 9 from an edition of 20, plus 2 artist's proofs.


This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Andrea Rosen Gallery and signed by the artist.

Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner 
Brussels, Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Michael Jenkins, March – April 1991
Glen Falls, The Hyde collects ion, Just what is it that makes today's home so different, so appealing?, September – November 1991
Tokyo, Wacoal Art Center, Three or More- A Multiple Exhibition, October 1992
Glasgow, Tramway, Read My Lips: New York AIDS Polemics, October – December 1992
New York, Fischbach Gallery, Absence, Activism and the Body Politic, June – July 1994
Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; The Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Traveling, June – September 1994
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Santiago de Compostela, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (shown under exhibition title Felix Gonzalez-Torres (A Possible Landscape)); Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, [shown under exhibition title Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Girlfriend in a Coma)), Felix Gonzalez-Torres, December 1995 – June 1996
New York, Green Naftali, Broken Home, May – June 1997
Hannover, Sprengel Museum; St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum; Vienna, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, June 1997 – November 1998
Barcelona, Fundació Joan Miró, Lux/Lumen, June – October 1997
Harrisburg, Susquehanna Art Museum, I'm Not Here: Constructing Identity at the Turn of the Century, December 1999 – February 2000
St. Gallen, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, The Oldest Possible Memory, May – October 2000
New Mexico, National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, La Luz: Contemporary Latino Art in the United States, October – May 2001
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres/Joseph Beuys, February – May 2001
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, A Matter of Degree: Abstraction in Twentieth Century Art, November 2001 – January 2002
Avignon, collects ion Lambert, Coolustre, May – September 2003
Paris, Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume Eblouissement, June – September 2004
New York, Lehmann Maupin, L'Art Vivre, April – May 2005
Waltham, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Broken Home, January – April 2008 
Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Sparks! The William T. Kemper collects ing Initiative, May – July 2008
Clermont-Ferrand, L’Espace d’Art Contemporain, La Tôlerie, La Foule (Zéro – Infini): Chapitre 1 (unite – dualité – la meute – la masse) [The Crowd (Zero – Infinity): Chapter 1 (unity – duality – the pack – the multitude), May - July 2008
Paris, Passage du Retz; Petah Tikva, Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Insomniac Promenades: Dreaming/Sleeping in Contemporary Art, July 2008 – July 2009
Clermont-Ferrand, L’Espace d’Art Contemporain, La Foule (Zéro – Infini): Chapitre 2 (chaos – contrôle) [The Crowd (Zero – Infinity): Chapter 2 (chaos – control)], October – November 2008
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Permanent collects ion Installation, December 2009 – January 2013
Brussels, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre; Basel, Fondation Beyler; Frankfurt, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form, January 2010 – April 2011
Miami, Miami Art Museum (MAM), Between Here and There: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Permanent collects ion, February 2010 – April 2013
Mexico City, Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Somewhere/Nowhere: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, February – May 2010
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Contemporary collects ing: The Judith Neisser collects ion, February – May 2011
New York, Pace Gallery, Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Lightbulb, October – November 2011
Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst; Lisbon, Culturgest; New York, Artists Space, Tell it to My Heart: collects ed by Julie Ault, February 2013 – February 2014
Paris, La Galerie des Galeries, In a Sent.mes ntal Mood, May - August 2013
Cleveland, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, DIRGE: Reflections on [Life and] Death], March – June 2014
Metz, Centre Pompidou-Metz, 1984 -1999. La Décennie, May – March 2015
London, Phillips, A Very Brief History of Contemporary Sculpture, October 2014
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tongues Untied, June – September 2015
Avignon, collects ion Lambert en Avignon, Patrice Chéreau, un musée imaginaire, July – October 2015
Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art, What We Call Love - From Surrealism to Now, September 2015 – February 2016 12, 2015 – February 7, 2016
Modena, Manifattura Tabacchi , The Mannequin of History: Art after Fabrications of Critique and Culture, September 2015 – January 2016
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Permanent collects ion Installation, September 2015 – September 2020
Paris, Passage de Retz, Représenter l'Irreprésentable?, December 2015 – January 2016
Frankfurt, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst , An Imagined Museum: Works from the Centre Pompidou, the Tate and the MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, March – September 2016
London, Hauser & Wirth; New York, Andrea Rosen; Milan, Massimo De Carlo, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, May – July 2016
Reading, Reading Prison, Inside. Contemporary Artists and Writers in Reading Prison, September – December 2016
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Permanent collects ion Installation, February 2017 - ongoing
North Adams, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, The Half-Life of Love, May 2017 – January 2018
Genevra, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, May – September 2017
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Give and Take: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, March – September 2018
Milan, Massimo De Carlo, MCMXXXIV, March – May 2019
Montpellier, Montpellier Contemporain, Intimate Distance, June – September 2019
Hong Kong, David Zwirner, Singing the Body Electric, July– August 2019
Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Oh, Honey...A Queer Reading of the collects ion, August 2021 – February 2002
Sint-Martens-Latem, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Blindsight – Manon de Boer in dialogue with Latifa Laâbissi and Laszlo Umbreit, February – May 2022

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