Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996)

Untitled (Lover's Letter)

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Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996)
Untitled (Lover's Letter)
chromogenic print on jigsaw puzzle in plastic bag
8 x 10 in. (20.5 x 25.5 cm.)
Executed in 1991. This work is number one from an edition of three plus one artist's proof.

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1991

W. Bartman, ed., Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Los Angeles, 1993, p. 43 (illustrated).
D. Elger, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Catalogue Raisonné, Ostfildern-Ruit, 1997, p. 80, no. 141 (another example illustrated).
J. Morgan, Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-99, Boston, 1999, pp. 8-9, 14 and 45 (another example illustrated).
S. Schneider, ed., More Love: Art Politics, and Sharing Since the 1990s, Chapel Hill, 2013, pp. 18-19, 21, 32, 37 and 102-107 another example illustrated).

Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Das Jahrhundert des Multiple Von Duchamp bis zur Gegenwart [The Century of the Multiple], September-October 1994, p. 194, no. 245 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, March-May 1995.
Milan, Massimo De Carlo, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, September-October 1991.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Supernova: Art of the 1990’s from the Logan Collection, December 2003-May 2004, pp. 44 and 45-53 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Vail, Logan Collection, Post Modern Portraiture from the Logan Collection, Winter 2005, pp. 9, 12, 16, 52-53, 314 and 317 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
London, Hauser & Wirth, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, May-July 2016 (another example exhibited).

Please note another example of the present lot was included in the following exhibitions:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Supernova: Art of the 1990’s from the Logan Collection, December 2003-May 2004, pp. 44 and 45-53 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Vail, Logan Collection, Post Modern Portraiture from the Logan Collection, Winter 2005, pp. 9, 12, 16, 52-53, 314 and 317 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
London, Hauser & Wirth, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, May-July 2016 (another example exhibited).

Specialist note

“Beauty is a power we should reinvest with our own purpose” (F. Gonzalez-Torres, quoted in N. Spector, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, 1995-1996, p. 17).

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Untitled (Lover's Letter)

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