On Kawara - Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session New York Wednesday, May 15, 2024 | Phillips

Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning...

New York Auction 15 May 2024

  • “Despite the fact that paintings of dates necessarily resemble each other, no combination of numerical or letter forms can ever be identical with another. Letters and numbers, which may be perceived as independent objects, allow an otherwise immaterial date to assume material form. The date paintings thus succeed in turning abstract, temporal measurement into the concrete reality of painting.”
    —Anne Rorimer 

    • Provenance

      Lisson Gallery, London
      Private Collection, Geneva (acquired from the above in 1978)
      Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2007)
      Sotheby's, New York, November 12, 2009, lot 231
      Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

    • Exhibited

      London, Lisson Gallery, On Kawara: Date Paintings, April 1978

    • Literature

      Candida Höfer, On Kawara: Date Paintings in Private Collections, Cologne, 2009, p. 8 (installation view illustrated)

149

On Kawara

NOV. 8, 1977 (from Today Series, no. 23)

signed "On Kawara" on the reverse
liquitex on canvas with newspaper clipping in artist's box
8 1/8 x 10 1/4 in. (20.6 x 26 cm)
Executed on November 8, 1977.

Full Cataloguing

Estimate
$150,000 - 200,000 

Sold for $330,200

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Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session

New York Auction 15 May 2024