Mary Boone Gallery, New York Sale: Sotheby’s, New York, Contemporary Art, May 6, 1997, lot 98 Acquired from the above sale by the present owner Private collection, New York
Exhibited
New York, Mary Boone Gallery, Sherrie Levine, Septemeber 9-October 14, 1989 Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Selective Affinities, 1990
Literature
R. Krauss, Sherrie Levine, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, 1989, p. 16, (illustrated)
Catalogue Essay
“In 1989 the bachelor machine was there, waiting, to provide Sherrie Levine with a "way" to make sculpture. The Duchamp effect she needed was not that of the readymade, which describes relations among commodities, and between commodities and their consumers, but that of the bachelor machine, which invokes the connections between part-objects. And the malic molds, otherwise called the cemetary of uniforms and liveries, would provide these part-objects "readymade". The "way to make sculpture" would be to exhume them, to liberate them from the plane of The Large Glass, to cast them in three dimensions.” Rosalind Krauss, Bachelors, 1989.
1989 Frosted glass and vitrine. Object: 12 1/4 x 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (31.1 x 14 x 8.9 cm) Vitrine: 69 x 20 x 20 in. (175.3 x 50.8 x 50.8 cm) This work is unique.