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Tom Friedman (b. 1965)

Untitled

Price realised USD 43,750
Estimate
USD 20,000 – USD 30,000
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Tom Friedman (b. 1965)

Untitled

Price realised USD 43,750
Price realised USD 43,750
Details
Tom Friedman (b. 1965)
Untitled
pencil shaving
20 x 1½ x 1½ in. (50.8 x 50.8 x 3.8 cm.)
Executed in 1992.
Provenance
Feature, Inc., New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 22 May 2000, lot 149
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Aspen Art Museum; Winston-Salem, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and New York, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, Tom Friedman, July 2000-January 2002, p. 26 (exhibition copy illustrated and exhibited).
Milan, Fondazione Prada, Tom Friedman, October-December 2002, pp. 62-63 (exhibition copy illustrated and exhibited).
Rivoli-Torino, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, I Moderni/The Moderns, April-August 2003, pp. 87 and 218 (exhibition copy illustrated and exhibited).
Northampton, Smith College Museum of Art, Undomesticated Interiors, October 2003-January 2004, pp. 62 and 115 (exhibition copy exhibited). Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Andover, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Over + Over: Passion for Process, January-July 2005, p. 29 (illustrated).
London, Gagosian Gallery, Tom Friedman, Monsters and Stuff, May-July 2008, pp. 53 and 294 (exhibition copy illustrated and exhibited).

Lot Essay

A pencil was completely shaved by a pencil sharpener into one long continuous spiral.

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