Meat Cable

1. The artist; given to Ritsaert ten Cate, Loenersloot (1938-2008), the Netherlands, by 1969 [this and the following according to correspondence with Pace Gallery/Paul Thek Estate, Aug. 8, 2025; copy in curatorial object file]; given to Robert Wilson (1941-2025), New York, Mar. 1, 2006; given to Christopher Green (born 1967), Champaign, IL, 2006; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 21, 2026.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Loenersloot, Netherlands, Galerie Mickery, Paul Thek: The Procession/Easter in a Pear Tree also known as Decorations for a Tree, Wires and a Cross (The Artist’s Co-op), Apr. 6–Sept. 1, 1969, no cat.
• Loenersloot, Netherlands, Galerie Mickery, Paul Thek: Crèche, Dec. 24/25, 1970–undetermined closing date, no cat.
• Watermill, NY, Watermill Center, Thek Room, July 15, 2017–July 1, 2018, no cat.
• Bilbao, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Mar. 22–Sept. 9, 2019, no cat. no.
• Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, Bard College, Hessel Museum of Art, lnbetweener, Aug.4 –Aug. 24, 2020, cat. D.
• Rome, Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Paul Thek. Italian Hours, Oct. 28, 2022–Jan. 28, 2023, no cat. no., by error listed as steel cable with four wax elements
• Los Angeles, Pace Gallery, The Monster, Feb. 1–Mar. 22, 2025, no cat.

• Iñigo Urkullu, Juan Ignacio Vidarte, Carlos Torres Vila, and Philip Larratt-Smith, Jenny Holzer: Lo indescriptible/Thing indescribable, exh. cat. (Bilbao: Guggenheim Bilbao, 2019), 104-105 (color ill.).
• Elizaveta Shneyderman, Inbetweener, exh. cat. (Annandale-On-Hudson, NY: Bard College, Hessel Museum of Art, 2020), n.p., cat. D, fig. 8 (ill).
• Katy Diamond Hamer, ArtSeen. “Paul Thek: Interior / Landscape” Brooklyn Rail (September 2021), Online, (color ills.), https://brooklynrail.org/2021/09/artseen/Paul-Thek-Interior-Landscape/
• Peter Benson Miller, Paul Thek. Italian Hours, exh. cat. (Milan: Humboldt Books; Rome: Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, 2023), 24-25 (color ill.), 28-29 (color ill.), 34-35 (color ills.), 36-37 (color ill.), 62, by error listed as steel cable with four wax elements, 78, 103.

Untitled #73 (from the series 'Technological Reliquaries')

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sicily

Art Institute of Chicago

Meat Cable

Art Institute of Chicago

Daniel Mytens

Art Institute of Chicago

The Basket of Apples

Art Institute of Chicago

The Bay of Marseille, Seen from L'Estaque

Art Institute of Chicago

Mahana no atua (Day of the God)

Art Institute of Chicago

Head of a Woman with a Blue Necklace

Art Institute of Chicago

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