Art Institute of Chicago

Sequel

Eva Hesse · 1967/68

Provenance

Ownership history

The Estate of Eva Hesse; sold through Metro Pictures, New York, to Charles Saatchi, London, July 1984 [correspondence from Metro Pictures, Mar. 23, 2002; copy in curatorial object file]; sold Sotheby’s Contemporary Art, Part I, New York, Nov. 13, 1991, lot. 59, to Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 14, 1997.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

New York, Fischbach Gallery, Eva Hesse, Chain Polymers, Nov. 15–Dec. 5, 1968, no cat.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Eva Hesse: A Memorial Exhibition, Dec. 8, 1972–Feb. 11, 1973, cat. 27; Buffalo, NY, Albright–Knox Gallery Mar. 6–Apr. 22, 1973; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, May 19–July 8, 1973; Pasadena, CA, Pasadena Art Museum Sept. 18–Nov. 11, 1973; Berkeley, CA, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, Dec. 12, 1973–Feb. 3, 1974.
London, Mayor Gallery, Eva Hesse 1936—1970. An Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings,
Sept. 25–Oct. 31, 1974, cat. 10.
Vancouver, Vancouver Art Gallery, Nancy Graves, Eva Hesse, Michelle Stuart, Jackie Winsor, Oct. 9–Nov. 6, 1977, no cat. no.
London, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Eva Hesse: Sculpture, May 4–June 17, 1979, cat. 28; Otterlo, NL, Rijksmuseum Kröller–Müller, June 30–Aug. 5, 1979; Hannover, Kestner–Gesellschaft, Aug. 17–Sept. 23, 1979, cat. 28, as Sequel, 1967.
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Flyktpunkter/Vanishing Points, Apr. 14–May, 27, 1984, cat. 55.
New York, Pat Hearn Gallery, Eva Hesse, Nov. 20–Dec. 31, 1987, no cat.
New Haven, CT, Yale University Art Gallery, Eva Hesse: A Retrospective, Apr. 15–July 1992, no cat. no. pl. 103; Washington D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Oct. 15–Jan. 10, 1993.
Valencia, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Eva Hesse Retrospective, Feb. 10–Apr. 4, 1993, cat. 92; Paris, Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Apr. 26–June 27, 1993, as Sequel (Secuela), 1967.
Los Angeles, Lannan Foundation, Floored: Sculpture from the Lannan Foundation Collection, Apr. 8–Aug. 13, 1995, no cat., checklist no. 12.
Waltham, MA, Rose Art Museum, More Than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the ‘70’s, Apr. 21–June 30, 1996, no cat. no.

Literature

Published references

Cindy Nemser, “An Interview with Eva Hesse,” Artforum, vol. 8 (May 1970): 61 (ill.), 62.
Lucy R. Lippard, “Eva Hesse - The Circle,” Art in America 59, no. 3 (May-June 1971): 70.
Robert Pincus–Witten and Linda Shearer, Eva Hesse: A Memorial Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1972), n.p., cat. 27 (ill.).
Lucy R. Lippard, Six years, the dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries…(London: Studio Vista, 1973), 57 (ill.), 268.
Linda Shearer, Eva Hesse 1936—1970. An Exhibition of Sculpture and Drawings, exh. cat. (London: Mayor Gallery, 1974), n.p., cat. 10 (ill.).
Cindy Nemser, Art Talk: Conversations with 12 Women Artists (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975), 210, 219.
Lucy R. Lippard, Eva Hesse (New York: New York University Press, 1976), 113, fig. 158 (ill.), 114, 130, 137, 192, 228, cat. 66.
Lucy R. Lippard, Strata: Nancy Graves, Eva Hesse, Michelle Stuart, Jackie Winsor, exh. cat. (Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1977), 12 (ill.).
Andrea Hill, “Eva Hesse,” Artscribe, no. 18, July 1979, 42.
Nicholas Serota and Rosalind Krauss, Eva Hesse: Sculpture, exh. cat. (London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1979), n.p., cat. 28 (ill.), as Sequel, 1967.
Nicholas Serota and Rosalind Krauss, Eva Hesse: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, exh. cat. (Hannover: Kestner–Gesellschaft, 1979), 25 (ill.), 50, cat. 28 (ill.), 108, cat. 28, as Sequel, 1967.
Erika Billeter, Weich und Plastisch (Zurich: Kunsthaus Zürich, 1979), 128 (ill.), 189, as Sequel, 1967 (S. 128).

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