.jpg?w=1)
PROPERTY FROM THE DONALD AND SHIRLEY WEESE YOUNG COLLECTION WITH PROCEEDS INTENDED TO BENEFIT ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
Donald used to wear a white t-shirt stamped with the words "pure beauty" in black Helvetica letters. Our vocabulary was visual. Together we lived through our eyes, followed closely by our other senses.
...Whether examining the cut and touching the fabric of a possible new suit, wondering why his bread did not brown evenly like the perfect cookbook picture, reveling in the detail of a favorite painting at The Prado, skimming across metallic water while trimming a spinnaker so that its belly was filled with just the right amount of air, counting the distance between seeds as he dropped them into the warm earth in a straight row, underlining favorite thoughts in a challenging book, smiling under the sky as he flew down a mountain on skis, marveling at the dappled light under a double row of plane trees, arguing a conceptual idea into the wee hours, arranging and rearranging paintings on a wall or sculpture on the floor, inspecting lichen on his hands and knees among the heather-strewn moors, commenting on the shadow of a certain curve in a building or the intense color of a red geranium filled with sun...
Donald lived his life in pursuit of beauty. We all find it, and are moved by it, in different ways. I find it outside.
Shortly after Donald's death in April 2012, I was invited to join the Sierra Club Foundation Board where I found myself surrounded by active, engaged, and highly talented people who are working on many fronts toward the same goal: a comprehensive climate action plan that provides clean air and water for all. It does not get more basic than that.
Beauty seems to be misunderstood and undervalued in our present culture. Out of respect for beauty and most importantly out of love for Donald, I intend to donate a portion of the proceeds of this sale to a few carefully selected environmental organizations that are bringing all segments of society to the table in an attempt to solve the greatest crisis we have ever known.
As Wendell Berry writes, "What I stand for is what I stand on."
Shirley Weese Young
PROPERTY FROM THE DONALD AND SHIRLEY WEESE YOUNG COLLECTION WITH PROCEEDS INTENDED TO BENEFIT ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
Bruce Nauman (B.1941)
Double Poke in the Eye II
Details
Bruce Nauman (B.1941)
Double Poke in the Eye II
neon and white aluminum box
24 x 36 x 6 1/4 in. (61 x 91.4 x 15.9 cm.)
Executed in 1985. This work is number thirty-four from an edition of forty plus eight artist's proofs and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Double Poke in the Eye II
neon and white aluminum box
24 x 36 x 6 1/4 in. (61 x 91.4 x 15.9 cm.)
Executed in 1985. This work is number thirty-four from an edition of forty plus eight artist's proofs and is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity signed by the artist.
Provenance
Hirschl and Adler, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
J. Silverthorne, "Bruce Nauman: Collaboration," Parkett, no. 10, September 1986, p. 16 (another example illustrated).
N. Benezra, et. al., Bruce Nauman: exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonné, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1994, p. 294, no. 333 (another example illustrated).
J.D. Ketner II, Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works of Art, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum, 2006, p. 78, no. 69 (another example illustrated).
N. Benezra, et. al., Bruce Nauman: exhibition catalogue and catalogue raisonné, exh. cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 1994, p. 294, no. 333 (another example illustrated).
J.D. Ketner II, Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works of Art, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum, 2006, p. 78, no. 69 (another example illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, New Museum, Bruce Nauman, 1987 (another example exhibited).
Cologne, Galeries Daniel Buchholz, Multiples, September-October 1987 (another example exhibited).
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Art Against AIDS, June 1987 (another example exhibited).
New York, Josh Baer Gallery, Schizophrenia, September 1987 (another example exhibited).
Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art; Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art and Miami, The Center for the Fine Arts, Digital Visions: Computers and Art, September 1987-September 1988, p. 144 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Cleveland Museum of Art, Illuminations: The Art of Light, September-December 1987 (another example exhibited).
Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Herron Gallery, Welcome Back: Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper by Contemporary Artists from Indiana, January-February 1988 (another example exhibited).
New York, Kent Fine Art, Altered States, April-May 1988 (another example exhibited).
La Cité des Arts et des Nouvelles Technologies de Montréal, 1988, p. 76.
New York, Brooke Alexander Editions, Selected Prints 1960-1989, March-May 1989 (another example exhibited).
Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, Bruce Nauman: Prints 1970-89, September-October 1989, p. 127 (illustrated, another example exhibited).
New York, Hirschl and Adsler Modern, Multiples, May-June 1990 (another example exhibited).
St. Louis, Washington University, Steinberg Hall, Bruce Nauman: Light Works, January-March 1993 (another example exhibited).
Cologne, Galeries Daniel Buchholz, Multiples, September-October 1987 (another example exhibited).
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Art Against AIDS, June 1987 (another example exhibited).
New York, Josh Baer Gallery, Schizophrenia, September 1987 (another example exhibited).
Syracuse, Everson Museum of Art; Cincinnati, Contemporary Arts Center, New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art and Miami, The Center for the Fine Arts, Digital Visions: Computers and Art, September 1987-September 1988, p. 144 (another example exhibited and illustrated).
Cleveland Museum of Art, Illuminations: The Art of Light, September-December 1987 (another example exhibited).
Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Herron Gallery, Welcome Back: Painting, Sculpture and Works on Paper by Contemporary Artists from Indiana, January-February 1988 (another example exhibited).
New York, Kent Fine Art, Altered States, April-May 1988 (another example exhibited).
La Cité des Arts et des Nouvelles Technologies de Montréal, 1988, p. 76.
New York, Brooke Alexander Editions, Selected Prints 1960-1989, March-May 1989 (another example exhibited).
Chicago, Donald Young Gallery, Bruce Nauman: Prints 1970-89, September-October 1989, p. 127 (illustrated, another example exhibited).
New York, Hirschl and Adsler Modern, Multiples, May-June 1990 (another example exhibited).
St. Louis, Washington University, Steinberg Hall, Bruce Nauman: Light Works, January-March 1993 (another example exhibited).
Sale Room Notice
Please note the correct dimension in centimeter is 61 x 91.4 x 15.9 cm.
Brought to you by
Eliza Netter