Cosima von Bonin

Lot 57: COSIMA VON BONIN

Name: COSIMA VON BONIN
Brand: Sotheby's
SKU: 3c212a080a

Est: $20,000 USD - $30,000 USDSold:

Sotheby'sNew York, NY, USMarch 07, 2013

Item Overview

Description

B.1962
RORSCHACHTEST #3
inscribed NEXT WEEK WE'VE GOT TO GET ORGANIZED in embroidery
sewn thread and linen on cotton
113 7/8 by 92 in. 289.2 by 233.7 cm.
Executed in 2006.

Artist or Maker

Cosima von Bonin

Exhibited

New York, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Cosima von Bonin: Relax, It's Only a Ghost, June - July 2006
Kassel, Documenta XII, June - September 2007
Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roger and Out, September - January 2008
St. Louis, Kemper Art Museum, Cosima von Bonin, May - July 2011

Literature

Jerry Saltz, "Cash, Clowns and Carnival," The Village Voice, June 22, 2006, illustrated
Thomas Wagner, ed., "Der Kunstsommer als gigantische Dampfscaschine," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 5, 2007, p. 40
Holger Liebs, ed., "Boudoir und Baumarkt," Feuilleton, June 16, 2007, p. 15

Provenance

Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Auction Details

Passion + Transmission

Sotheby's

March 07, 2013, 12:00 PM EST

1334 York Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, US

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