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Untitled from The New York Collection for Stockholm by Dan Flavin

Untitled from The New York Collection for Stockholm by Dan Flavin

Clifton Gallery

Screenprint

1973

Edition Size: 300

Sheet Size: 30.5 x 22.8 cm

Signed

Condition: Excellent

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Untitled from The New York Collection for Stockholm

By Dan Flavin

This screenprint on paper was created as part of the iconic New York Collection for Stockholm portfolio, a collection of 30 prints designed to be sold in an edition of 300, with each artist donating their prints. Experiments in Art and Technology in New York arranged the portfolio of prints to be sold to raise money for the collection at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, a European museum that celebrated American artists.

Today, important museums around the world hold the Stockholm portfolio including the MET and MoMA in New York, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Chazen Museum of Art and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, along with many others.

1973

Screenprint from a portfolio of seventeen screenprints, nine lithographs, two lithographs with screenprint, one photocopy, and one photograph.

30.5 x 22.8 cm

Hand-signed and numbered by Flavin

Edition of 300

£1,950.00

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The Artist

Dan Flavin

American artist Dan Flavin was one of the main instigators of the minimalist style in the mid part of the 20th century. Originally a sketcher and painter, Flavin found that light installations were his muse and he worked more and more in that medium as his career grew. In common with many of his peers, he used mundane, readily available components in his creations, which led to some labelling his work as tedious and ugly. He used tubes of fluorescent light and standard fixings to create his pieces, which by their very nature, had a fixed time limit before they expired. This fleeting, temporal aspect of Flavin’s work emphasised the uniqueness of each piece, as they burned bright for a short while before expiring and no longer existing as art. Many of these installations were plain: there was no attempt at a narrative or creation of meaning. All Flavin was interested in was how the light affected the surrounding environment. Flavin stated that he wasn’t trying to convey any particular message, though artistic commentators of the time read many different meanings into Flavin’s work. A lighting innovation Flavin discovered in 1963 enabled him to create a feeling of constant fluidity in his work, giving it a more vibrant feel.

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