From Line to Lens: Minimalism and Photography from an Important East Coast Collection
David Wojnarowicz
1954 - 1992
Sex Series (for Marion Scemama)
signed, titled, dated 1989/90 and numbered 2/12 (on the reverse of each)
8 gelatin silver prints, in artist's frames
each: 14 ¾ by 17 ⅝ in.
37.5 by 44.8 cm.
Executed in 1989-90, this set is number 2 from an edition of 12 plus 1 artist's proof.
Condition Report
Provenance
P.P.O.W., New York
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1990)
Christie's New York, 13 May 2022, lot 457
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Peter Schwenger, Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning, Redwood City, 1999, p. 124, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Julie Ault, Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America, New York, 1999, p. 108, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Richard Meyer, Outlaw Representation: Censorship & Homosexuality in Twentieth-century American Art, Boston, 2002, pp. 247-57, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Julie Ault, ed., Alternative Art, New York, 1965-1985: A Cultural Politics Book forthe Social Text Collective, Minneapolis, 2002, p. 177, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Steven Dubin, Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions, Oxfordshire, 2013, pl. 13, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Catherine Lord and Richard Meyer, Art and Queer Culture, New York, 2013, p. 164, illustrated (another example illustrated)
David Wojnarowicz, David Wojnarowicz: Brush Fires in the Social Landscape, New York, 2015, pp. 163-71, illustrated (another example illustrated)
Exhibited
New York, P.P.O.W., David Wojnarowicz: In the Shadow of Forward Motion, February - March 1989 (another example exhibited)
Normal, University Galleries at Illinois State University; Santa Monica Museum; New York, Exit Art; Philadelphia, Temple Gallery & Tyler Gallery, David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame, January 1990 - March 1991, pp. 66, 69, 71, and 73-42, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz, January - June 1999, pp. 101-102, 105-106 and 109, illustrated (another example exhibited)
Cambridge, Harvard Art Museums, Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981–2001, May - August 2018, pp. 48-56, illustrated (another example exhibited)
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia and Mudam, The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night, July 2018 - February 2020, pp. 238-45, illustrated (another example exhibited)