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Temple of Style: The Barbara Jakobson Collection
MATTHEW BARNEY (B. 1967)
CREMASTER 2: The Executioner's Song
Details
MATTHEW BARNEY (B. 1967)
CREMASTER 2: The Executioner's Song
signed and dated 'Matthew Barney 98' (on the reverse)
chromogenic print, in artist's acrylic frame
27 ¼ x 23 in. (69.2 x 58.4 cm.)
Executed in 1998. This work is number twelve from an edition of forty plus six artist's proofs.
CREMASTER 2: The Executioner's Song
signed and dated 'Matthew Barney 98' (on the reverse)
chromogenic print, in artist's acrylic frame
27 ¼ x 23 in. (69.2 x 58.4 cm.)
Executed in 1998. This work is number twelve from an edition of forty plus six artist's proofs.
Provenance
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999
Literature
T. Girst, "Sex, Art, and Videotape," National Post, 30 January 1999.
Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2002, p. 511.
I. Buckwalter, "Out of Frame: The Cremaster Cycle," DCist, 8 October 2010, digital (another example illustrated).
Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney, exh. cat., New York, The Morgan Library & Museum, p. 70.
P. Devlin, New York: Behind Closed Doors, Layton, 2017, p. 178 (illustrated in-situ).
Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2002, p. 511.
I. Buckwalter, "Out of Frame: The Cremaster Cycle," DCist, 8 October 2010, digital (another example illustrated).
Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney, exh. cat., New York, The Morgan Library & Museum, p. 70.
P. Devlin, New York: Behind Closed Doors, Layton, 2017, p. 178 (illustrated in-situ).
Exhibited
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Cremaster 2: The Drones' Exposition, March 1999-September 2000, n.p. (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Matthew Barney, November 2007-March 2008, pp. 34 and 232 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Munich, Sammlung Goetz, Matthew Barney, November 2007-March 2008, pp. 34 and 232 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
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