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PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

1933-1996
UNTITLED

height: 120 in. 305 cm.

red and yellow fluorescent light

Executed in 1968, this work is number 6B from an edition of 3 and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.

PROVENANCE

Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf
John Vaughn, London
Sotheby's, London, July 5, 1973, lot 47 (illustrated in color on the cover)

EXHIBITED

Munich, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Dan Flavin, May - June 1968
Düsseldorf, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dan Flavin: fluorescent light, January - February 1969

LITERATURE

Exh. Cat., Munich, Galerie-Verein München, Neue Pinokothek and Haus der Kunst (and traveling), Sammlung 1968: Karl Ströher, 1968, checklist no. 50-51 (Munich and Hamburg) and checklist no. 169 (Berlin, Düsseldorf and Bern)
Gerhard Botts, ed., Bildernische Ausdrucksformen 1969-70, Sammlung Karl Ströher, Darmstadt, 1970, p. 155, illustrated in color
Rolf Lauter, ed., Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt am Main: Second Publication on the Architecture and Collection, 1989, pp. 48-49, p. 51, illustrated in color (installation view at Art Frankfurt), p. 52, illustrated in color, and p. 53, illustrated in color (another installation view at Art Frankfurt)
Jean-Christophe Ammann and Peter Prager, Museum für Moderne Kunst und Sammlung Ströher, Frankfurt, 1991, p. 105, illustrated in color (installation view at Art Frankfurt)
Exh. Cat., Paris, Institut Neerlandais, Les Extrêmes se touchent: La collection du Musée Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, 1992, p. 27, illustrated in color
Dorothee Fischer, ed., Austellungen bei Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Oktober 1967 - Oktober 1992, Bielefeld, 1993, p. 27
Michael Govan & Tiffany Bell, Dan Flavin: The Complete Lights 1961-1996, New Haven and London, 2004, cat. no. 182, p. 274, illustrated in color

NOTE

Untitled (1968) is one of nine works in the series titled two primary series and one secondary in which Flavin conceived of three sets of paired colors (red and green, red and yellow, red and blue). In each set of three, Flavin began with one light for each of the two colors, progressing to two lights for each color and ending with three lights for each color as in the present work. The series was exhibited at Galerie Heiner Friedrich in 1968. The edition numbers, which combine a letter and a number, correspond to the inventory list made by Sonja Flavin for this show.

The prominent German collector, Karl Ströher, purchased an example of all nine works and this complete set of the series two primary series and one secondary is now in the collection of the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main and was exhibited at the Frankfurt Art Fair in 1989 in a reconstruction of the Galerie Heiner Friedrich installation.