Bruce Nauman
Tate Modern (London, UK) from 07 Oct 2020 until 21 Feb 2021.
Bruce Nauman
(born 1941, born: Fort Wayne, active: Galisteo, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Pasedena)
X76024
A Cast of the Space Under My Chair
1965-1968
sculpture
Concrete
displayed: 445 x 391 x 371 mm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands. Formerly in the Visser Collection. Purchased with support from the Mondriaan Foundation
Provenance:
A Cast of the Space Under My Chair 1965-68 [X76024]
The studio of the artist;
Consigned to Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf;
Acquired by Geertjan Visser;
Acquired by the present owner.
Nationality of the artist: American
Identifying marks: unknown
Place of manufacture: USA
Published in the Nauman 1994 catalogue raisonné as entry no.102
This work was made after the operative period 1933-45.
X76060
Concrete Tape Recorder Piece
1968
sculpture
Concrete, audiotape player, audiotape
displayed: 305 x 610 x 610 mm
Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland
Provenance:
Concrete Tape Recorder Piece 1968 [X76060]
The studio of the artist;
Consigned to Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp;
Acquired by Dr. Jost Herbig, Ebenhausen, Germany;
Acquired by Friedrich Christian Flick (placed on long-term loan to the Staatliche Museen Kassel, Neue Galerie) by 1994 (as per the artist’s catalogue raisonné);
Purchased at Christie’s New York, Contemporary Art Sale, sale 8910 lot 12, on 3 June 1998, by a private collector;
Consigned to Hauser & Wirth, New York;
Acquired by the present owner.
Nationality of the artist: American
Identifying marks: unknown
Place of manufacture: USA
Published in the Nauman 1994 catalogue raisonné as entry no. 104, where an alternative title of the work given is ‘Tape Recorder with a Tape Loop of Scream Wrapped in a Plastic Bag and Cast into the Center’.
This work was made after the operative period 1933-45.
X76346
First Poem Piece
1968
sculpture
Steel
object: 13 x 1524 x 1524 mm
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands. Formerly in the Visser collection.
Provenance:
First Poem Piece 1968 [X76346]
The studio of the artist;
Consigned to Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf;
Acquired by the present owner.
Nationality of the artist: American
Identifying marks: unknown
Place of manufacture: USA
Published in the Nauman 1994 catalogue raisonné as entry no.109
This work was made after the operative period 1933-45.
X77054
Musical Chairs
1983
sculpture
Steel and wire
object: 864 x 5000 x 5000 mm
Herbert Foundation, Ghent
Provenance:
Musical Chairs 1983 [X77054]
The studio of the artist;
Consigned to Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf;
Acquired by the present owner.
Nationality of the artist: American
Identifying marks: unknown
Place of manufacture: USA
Published in the Nauman 1994 catalogue raisonné as entry no.314
This work was made after the operative period 1933-45.
X75800
Shadow Puppets and Instructed Mime
1990
time-based media
Three wax heads, linen, wood, 4 flight cases, video, 4 monitors, 4 projectors, colour, sound
Dimensions variable
Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, on permanent loan to the Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel
Provenance:
Shadow Puppets and Instructed Mime 1990 [X75800]
Unique elements created in the studio of the artist,
Consigned to Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, in the same year;
Acquired by the present owner.
Nationality of the artist: American
Identifying marks: unknown
Place of manufacture: USA
Published in the Nauman 1994 catalogue raisonné as entry no.459
This work was made after the operative period 1933-45.
