Live Auction 11796Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
Bruce Nauman (B. 1941)
Lot 169

Bruce Nauman (B. 1941)

Untitled (Crossbeams)

Closed12 February 2016

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GBP 28,750

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Bruce Nauman (B. 1941)
Untitled (Crossbeams)
incised with the artist's signature, number and date 'Bruce Nauman 85, A/B 1/25' (on one element); incised with the number 'B/B 1/25 BN83-2123' (on the other element)
cast iron beams with grit blast finish, in two parts
87 3/8 x 85 3/8in. (222 x 217cm.)
Executed in 1986, this work is number one from an edition of twenty-five

Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘Here, two cast iron bars (with grit-blast finish) transform along their lengths from square shaped at one end to circular in the centre to triangular at the opposite end. These are slipcased into two somewhat shorter tubes of the same changing shape. The two elements are then arranged in an X-configuration reminiscent of Nauman’s suspended sculptures with two crossed steel l-beams’
(N. Benezra, Bruce Nauman: exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonné, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1994, p. 306).