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Puerto Rican Light (to Jeanie Blake)
Details
Dan Flavin (1933-1996)
Puerto Rican Light (to Jeanie Blake)
red, pink and yellow fluorescent light
49 x 8½ x 4 in. (124.5 x 21.5 x 10.2 cm.)
Executed in 1965. This work is number one from an edition of three plus one artist's proof and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Puerto Rican Light (to Jeanie Blake)
red, pink and yellow fluorescent light
49 x 8½ x 4 in. (124.5 x 21.5 x 10.2 cm.)
Executed in 1965. This work is number one from an edition of three plus one artist's proof and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Provenance
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Literature
Electric Art, exh. cat., Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, 1969, n.p. (illustrated).
Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975, Exh. cat., Washington U. Kultermann, Art Contemporain, Tokyo, 1975, p. 170 (illustrated). A. Lipp and P. Zec, eds., Mehr Licht/More Light, exh. cat, Kunsthalle Hamburg, 1985, p. 95 (illustrated).
I. Sandler, American Art of the 1960s, New York, 1988, no. 8 (illustrated).
B. Kerber, Bestände Onnasch, Weserberg, 1992, p. 290.
H. Cotter, "Uptown, Too, Has Heat and Light Aplenty," New York Times, May 30, 2003, sec. E, p. 35.
M. Govan and T. Bell, Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961-1996, New York, 2004, no. 95, p. 246 (illustrated).
Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975, Exh. cat., Washington U. Kultermann, Art Contemporain, Tokyo, 1975, p. 170 (illustrated). A. Lipp and P. Zec, eds., Mehr Licht/More Light, exh. cat, Kunsthalle Hamburg, 1985, p. 95 (illustrated).
I. Sandler, American Art of the 1960s, New York, 1988, no. 8 (illustrated).
B. Kerber, Bestände Onnasch, Weserberg, 1992, p. 290.
H. Cotter, "Uptown, Too, Has Heat and Light Aplenty," New York Times, May 30, 2003, sec. E, p. 35.
M. Govan and T. Bell, Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights, 1961-1996, New York, 2004, no. 95, p. 246 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, First Annual: Arp to Artschwager, June-September 1966.
Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries; Phoenix Art Museum, Electric Art, January-June 1969, n.p. (illustrated).
Washington, Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975, October-November 1975, n.p.
Berlin, Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, Dan Flavin, March-April 1985.
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Illumination: The Quality of Light, June-July 1985, n.p.
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Mer Licht/More Light, July-September 1985.
New York, Zwirner and Wirth, Dan Flavin: Works from the 1960's, September-November 2000.
Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries; Phoenix Art Museum, Electric Art, January-June 1969, n.p. (illustrated).
Washington, Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975, October-November 1975, n.p.
Berlin, Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, Dan Flavin, March-April 1985.
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Illumination: The Quality of Light, June-July 1985, n.p.
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Mer Licht/More Light, July-September 1985.
New York, Zwirner and Wirth, Dan Flavin: Works from the 1960's, September-November 2000.