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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 18, 2022 | Christie's | New York | 21st Century Evening Sale | 113 | $****** - ****** | Revolution Counter Revolution | |||
Nov 16, 2006 | Phillips | New York | Contemporary Art - Part I | 22 | $****** - ****** | Revolution Counter Revolution |
sculpture
292.1 x 416.6 x 416.6 cm (115 x 164 x 164 in)
carved wood, steel, fabric and mechanical elements
Galleria Franz Paludetto, Turin
Private collection, Italy
Anon. sale; Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 16 November 2006, lot 22
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Los Angeles, Burnett Miller Gallery, Charles Ray , November 1990.
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center; Portland Art Museum; Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Centres Georges Pompidou; Mexico City, Museo Rufino Tamayo; Miami Art Museum, Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures, July 2000-November 2001, p. 146, no. 59 (illustrated)
Turin, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, January 1999-December 2003 (on loan).
Charles Ray , exh. cat., Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1990, p. 33 (illustrated).
C. Knight, "Sculptor Takes Himself Out of Picture," Los Angeles Times, 5 August 1990.
Charles Ray, exh. cat., Malmo, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, 1994.
Au-delà spectacle , exh. cat., Paris, Centres Georges Pompidou, 2000, p. 37 (illustrated).
P. Ritter, "Too Much Joy," Citypages, vol. 21, no. 1007, 22 March 2000.
J. Ranciere, The Emancipated Spectator, London, 2008.
R. Smith, "Anti-Mainstream Museum's Mainstream Show," New York Times, 5 March, 2010, p. C21.
J. Saltz, "Less Than the Sum of Its Parts," New York Magazine, 25 March 2010 (installation view illustrated).
DESTE 33 Years: 1983-2015, exh. cat., DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, 2015, p. 490 (installation view illustrated).
J. Kraynak, Contemporary Art and the Digitization of Everyday Life, Berkeley, 2020, pp. 132-133, fig. 3.4 (illustrated).
Charles Ray, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou and Bource de Commerce, 2022, p. 180 (illustrated).
CHARLES RAY (B. 1953)
Revolution Counter Revolution
carved wood, steel, fabric and mechanical elements
115 x 164 x 164 in. (292.1 x 416.6 x 416.6 cm.)
Executed in 1990. This work is unique.
