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Dan Flavin

East New York Shrine

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February 27, 05:22 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 USD

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20,000 USD

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Description

Dan Flavin

1933 - 1996


East New York Shrine

signed, dated 1963 and inscribed HOLY MOTHER LOADED WITH GRACE PLEASE HELP PLUNK SONJA AND DAN FLAVIN (along the lower edge)

tin can, porcelain receptacle, pull chain, Aerolux bulb and black glass beads

11⅜ by 4½ by 4½ in. 

30 by 11.5 by 11.5 cm.

Executed in 1962-63, this work is number 2 from an edition of 10, of which 8 were fabricated.

Edward M. Plunkett, New York (acquired directly from the artist as a gift in 1963)

Peter Freeman, Brooklyn (acquired from the above in 2002)

Anthony Meier Replica Handbags s, San Francisco

Chara Schreyer, Tiburon (acquired from the above in 2002)

Sotheby's New York, 29 February 2024, lot 434 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

New York, Kaymar Gallery, dan flavin: some light, March 1964 (another example exhibited) 

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; Vancouver Art Gallery and New York, Jewish Museum, fluorescent light, etc. from Dan Flavin, September 1969 - March 1970, no. 55, pp. 132-133, 158, 191, illustrated (present example)

Seattle, Donald Young Gallery, Dan Flavin: Selected Works 1964-1990, January - March 1994 (another example exhibited)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Replica Handbags s, Pop Abstraction, February - April 1998 (another example exhibited)

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; London, Hayward Gallery; Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris; Munich, Pinakothek der Moderne and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Dan Flavin: A Retrospective, October 2004 - August 2007, pp. 28 and 214, illustrated in color (present example)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, July 1–October 30, 2005; Hayward Gallery, London, January 19–April 2, 2006; Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, June 9–October 8, 2006; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, November 23– April 9, 2007; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, May 13–August 12, 2007

Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Dan Flavin: Lights, March - August 2013, p. 18, illustrated in color (another example exhibited)

Jack Burnham, "A Dan Flavin Retrospective in Ottowa", Artforum, December 1969, pp. 51-52

William S. Wilson, "Dan Flavin: Fiat Lux", ARTnews, January 1970, pp. 48-51, illustration of another example

James Meyer, ed., Minimalism, London 2000, p. 92, illustration of another example

James Meyer, Minimalism Art and Polemics in the Sixties, New Haven 2001, pp. 95-98, illustration of another example

Marcia E. Vetrocq, "Dan Flavin: Singing the Art Electric," Art in America, January 2005, p. 82, illustrated in color

Caroline A. Jones, "Light Speed: Dan Flavin at the National Gallery," Artforum, February 2005, vol. 32, no. 6, p. 158, illustrated in color

Corinna Thierolf and Johannes Vogt, Dan Flavin: Icons, Munich 2009, p. 22, illustration of another example in color 

Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath, eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, New York 2021, p. 137, illustrated in color