Lot 70
70
ON KAWARA (1933-2014)
ON KAWARA (1933-2014)
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ON KAWARA (1933-2014)

I Got Up...

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ON KAWARA (1933-2014)
I Got Up...
stamped with the artist's name, title and respective date (on the reverse of each postcard)
ink on mailed postcard, in twenty parts
each: 3 ½ x 5 ½ in. (8.9 x 14 cm.)
Executed between 5-24 June 1978.
Provenance
Private collection, Tokyo, received directly from the artist, 1978
By descent from the above to the present owner
Exhibited
Städtischen Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München and Cologne, Museum Ludwig, On Kawara: Horizontality / Verticality, October 2000-January 2001.

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Lot Essay

“He’s taking advantage of mediums that already exist in the world. What he’s doing is supposed to reflect the parameters of daily life that are decidedly nonaesthetic. Kawara’s work seems to be the residue, in a way, of a practice of these activities. It takes the form of the repetition of modular elements, or units, that are roughly but not quite the same from one to the next.”
—J. Weiss, Curator, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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