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Lot 408 |LOISAIDA: 1980’S GRAFFITI AND STREET ART FROM THE JOHN P. AXELROD COLLECTION
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)
History Keeps Me Awake at Night (For Rilo Chmierlorz)
Closed18 November 2022
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USD 882,000
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DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)
History Keeps Me Awake at Night (For Rilo Chmierlorz)
signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT DAVID WOJNAROWICZ 1986 KÖLN' (on the reverse)
acrylic, spray paint, and printed paper collage on panel
67 x 78 1/2 in. (170.2 x 199.4 cm.)
Executed in 1986.
History Keeps Me Awake at Night (For Rilo Chmierlorz)
signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT DAVID WOJNAROWICZ 1986 KÖLN' (on the reverse)
acrylic, spray paint, and printed paper collage on panel
67 x 78 1/2 in. (170.2 x 199.4 cm.)
Executed in 1986.
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)
History Keeps Me Awake at Night (For Rilo Chmierlorz)
signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT DAVID WOJNAROWICZ 1986 KÖLN' (on the reverse)
acrylic, spray paint, and printed paper collage on panel
67 x 78 1/2 in. (170.2 x 199.4 cm.)
Executed in 1986.
History Keeps Me Awake at Night (For Rilo Chmierlorz)
signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'HISTORY KEEPS ME AWAKE AT NIGHT DAVID WOJNAROWICZ 1986 KÖLN' (on the reverse)
acrylic, spray paint, and printed paper collage on panel
67 x 78 1/2 in. (170.2 x 199.4 cm.)
Executed in 1986.
Anna Friebe, Cologne
P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
Private collection, Colorado
Anon. sale; Christie's New York, 9 May 2012, lot 514
Web Gallery NYC, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
Private collection, Colorado
Anon. sale; Christie's New York, 9 May 2012, lot 514
Web Gallery NYC, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
H. Cotter, "He Spoke Out During the AIDS Crisis. See Why His Art Still Matters." The New York Times, July 2018, n.p. (illustrated).
Cologne, Anna Friebe Galerie, David Wojnarowicz, 1986, n.p. (illustrated).
New York, New Museum, Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz, January-June 1999, p. 27 (illustrated).
Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Loisaida: New York's Lower East Side in the '80s, April-July 2014.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia and Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night, July 2018-February 2020, pp. 99 and 202-203 (illustrated).
New York, New Museum, Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz, January-June 1999, p. 27 (illustrated).
Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Loisaida: New York's Lower East Side in the '80s, April-July 2014.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia and Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night, July 2018-February 2020, pp. 99 and 202-203 (illustrated).
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