
Art Institute of Chicago
"Untitled" (Portrait of Ross in L.A.)
Felix Gonzalez-Torres · 1991
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold through Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles, to Vivian and David Campbell, Warren, VT by Mar. 21,1992 [email from Zachary Boozer, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Jun. 3, 2022; copy in curatorial object file]; sold through Luhring Augustine, New York, to Donna and Howard Stone, Chicago, Nov. 10, 1995 [invoice in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 13, 2022.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Los Angeles, Luhring Augustine Hetzler Gallery, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Oct. 19–Nov. 16, 1991, no cat.
- Pully, Switzerland, Musee D’Art Contemporain, Post Human: New Forms of Figuration in Contemporary Art, June 14–Sept. 13, 1992, not in cat.; Rivoli, Italy, Castello di Rivoli, Oct. 1–Nov. 22, 1992, Athens, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Dec. 3, 1992–Feb. 14, 1993, Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Mar. 12–May 9, 1993, Jerusalem, Israel Museum, June 21–Oct. 10, 1993.
- Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Works on loan from the Collection of Vivian and David Campbell, Jan. 21–Aug. 6, 1993, no cat.
- Hovikodden, Norway, Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Art Center, Tema Aids, May 8–July 8, 1993, not in cat.; Bergen, Norway Museum, July–November, Hagen, Germany Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Dec. 1, 1993–Jan. 9, 1994, as Thema: Aids.
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties, Sept. 13, 1997–Jan. 13, 1998, cat. 9.
- Barcelona, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Artificial: Contemporary Figures, Jan. 21–Mar. 15, 1998, no cat. no.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art and Culture 1900–2000, Sept. 26, 1999–Feb. 13, 2000, no cat. no.
- Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Culbutes Oevre d’impertienence/Head over Heels into the Millennium, Nov. 18–Apr. 23, 2000, no cat. no.
- New York, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Untitled (Sculpture): Kendall Geers, Martin Kippenburger, Reinhard Mle ucha, Rachel Whiteread, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Robert Gober, Tunga, Steve Wolfe, Jan. 8–Feb. 12, 2000, no cat.
- Philadelphia, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, s(how): ICA Art History Project, May 3–July 27, 2003, no cat.
- Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye, Feb. 12–June 5, 2005, no cat. no.; London, Hayward Gallery, Oct. 6–Dec. 11, 2005; Museo de Arte Moderna e Conteporanea de Trento e Rovereto (MART), Feb. 10–May 14, 2006, no cat. no.
- Kunstmuseum Bern, Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead, Nov. 2, 2006–Jan. 21, 2007; Dresden, Deutsche Hygiene-Museum, Sept. 22, 2007-Mar. 30 2008, no. cat. no.
Literature
Published references
- David Pagel, “World of Gonzalez-Torres. Testers on Joy and Despair,” Los Angeles Times (Nov. 7, 1991), section F, p. 6 (ill.).
- R. J. Merrill, “Rituals and Allegories. Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Luhring Augustine Hetzler,” Artweek (Nov. 14, 1991), p. 14 (ill.).
- Nicola White, Simon Watney and Vito Russo, Read My Lips: New York AIDS Polemics, exh. cat. (Glasgow: Tramway, 1992): 49 (ill.).
- Nancy Spector, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres,” in Felix Gonzalez-Torres, exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1995), 150–51, 222–23 (ill.).
- “Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Album),” in Blocnotes, Sept./Oct. 1996, p. 87 (ill.).
- Gerhard Mack, “Am Fusse des Kulturpalastes," in St. Galler Tagblatt (October 30, 1996), n.pag. (ill.).
- Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Catalogue Raisonné, exh. cat. by Dietmar Elger (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1997), cat. 168 (color ill.).
- Janet Cardiff, Iran do Espírito Santo, Charles LeDray, Kathryn. Spence, Steve Wolfe, Jennifer Pastor, Gabriel Orozco, et al. Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties, exh. cat. (San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1997), 20, 21 (color ill.), 34.
- Francesco Bonami, Artificial: Figuracions Contemporànies, exh. cat. (Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 1998), 48, 49 (color ill.), 73, 92, 117, as Sense títol (Retrat de Ross a Los Angeles).
- Barbara Haskell and Lisa Phillips, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-1950, exh. cat. (New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1999), 355, fig. 581 (color ill.).
- Paulette Gagnon, Suzanne Foisy, and Sandra Grant Marchand, Culbutes: Oeuvre d’Impertinence, exh. cat. (Montréal: Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, 1999), 36 (ill.), 37, 94.
- Lisa Stein, “What a concept: Museums try to preserve art when it goes beyond objects,” Chicago Tribune (October 22, 2000), section 7, 14 (ill.).
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