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Dan Flavin Art

American, 1933-1996
Dan Flavin (1933-1996) was a prominent American artist best known for his illuminated light installations and sculptural fixtures. A pioneer of minimalism, Flavin repurposed commonplace industrial objects, such as harsh fluorescent lights, into transformative geometric installations. In the spirit of Marcel Duchamp's readymades, Flavin refrained from altering the objects and went as far as employing factory default colors for his strict palette of red, blue, green, pink, yellow, ultraviolet, and four different shades of white. Flavin's geometric compositions were an explicit study of color, light, and space. With almost no technical production required, Flavin was able to prioritize the installation and arrangement of the materials, focusing on how they cooperated with the space and the way the display might be experienced by the viewer.
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Artist: Dan Flavin
Historic invitation design for 1970 ACE Gallery exhibition Minimalist light art
Historic invitation design for 1970 ACE Gallery exhibition Minimalist light art

Historic invitation design for 1970 ACE Gallery exhibition Minimalist light art

By Dan Flavin

Located in New York, NY

Dan Flavin Unique design for 1970 ACE Gallery exhibition, 1970 Letterpress and stencil on colored paper Not signed Frame included Floated in the original ACE gallery vintage wood fra...

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1970s Minimalist Dan Flavin Art

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Etching, Stencil

Poster invitation to Barnett Newman from Dan Flavin in the Leo Castelli Gallery
Poster invitation to Barnett Newman from Dan Flavin in the Leo Castelli Gallery

Poster invitation to Barnett Newman from Dan Flavin in the Leo Castelli Gallery

By Dan Flavin

Located in New York, NY

Scarce early Leo Castelli Gallery offset lithograph poster invitation This image is a vintage exhibition poster for the Dan Flavin exhibition Published by Leo Castelli Gallery, 4 Eas...

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1970s Minimalist Dan Flavin Art

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Lithograph, Offset

Rare Albright Knox museum poster (hand signed and inscribed to renowned curator)
Rare Albright Knox museum poster (hand signed and inscribed to renowned curator)

Rare Albright Knox museum poster (hand signed and inscribed to renowned curator)

By Dan Flavin

Located in New York, NY

Dan Flavin Dan Flavin at Albright Knox Gallery (hand signed and inscribed to renowned curator) Offset Lithograph. Hand signed and inscribed by Dan Flavin 18 × 22 inches Provenance: Estate of artist and collector Rick Collar Unframed Uniquely inscribed and hand signed 1972 Dan Flavin exhibition poster from his Albright Knox exhibition. Dan Flavin hand signs and inscribes it to Paulus Hendrik Hefting, the curator of the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. The inscription reads: "Best regards and best wishes to you especially in "diagrams and drawings". What Flavin is referring to is the important exhibition also in 1972, "Diagrams & Drawings" curated by Hefting, at the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller (Netherlands), which featured Carl Andre, Christo, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Michael Heizer, Don Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson. An extremely rare signed poster with a unique inscription to a major European curator referencing an historic Minimalist exhibition in the early 1970s. We may not see the likes of something like this anytime soon! Dan Flavin Biography From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), a single gold fluorescent lamp installed diagonally on the wall, until his death in 1996, Dan Flavin (1933-1996) produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially available fluorescent lamps to create installations (or “situations,” as he preferred to call them) of light and color. Through these light constructions, Flavin was able to establish and redefine space. Flavin’s first solo exhibitions were held at the Judson Gallery in 1961 and the Green Gallery in 1964, both in New York. His first European exhibition was in 1966 at Galerie Rudolf Zwirner in Cologne, Germany; and in 1969, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, organized his first major museum retrospective. His work was included in a number of key early exhibitions of Minimal art in the 1960s, among them Black, White, and Gray (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, 1964); Primary Structures (The Jewish Museum, New York, 1966); and Minimal Art (Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, 1968). Flavin’s work would continue to be presented internationally over the course of the pursuant decades at venues including the St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri (1973); Kunsthalle Basel (1975); Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1975); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1986); and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1992), among others. A major museum retrospective devoted to Flavin’s work was organized, in cooperation with the Estate of Dan Flavin, by the Dia Art Foundation in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, where it was first on view in 2004. The exhibition traveled from 2005 to 2007 to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hayward Gallery, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris...

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1970s Abstract Geometric Dan Flavin Art

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Pencil, Lithograph, Offset

Dan Flavin, A Sketch of The Diagonal of May 25, 1963 in Fluorescent Light
Dan Flavin, A Sketch of The Diagonal of May 25, 1963 in Fluorescent Light

Dan Flavin, A Sketch of The Diagonal of May 25, 1963 in Fluorescent Light

By Dan Flavin

Located in Hamburg, DE

Dan Flavin (American, 1933-1996) A Sketch of The Diagonal of May 25, 1963 in Fluorescent Light, 1974 Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Dimensions: 18.5 x 31.5 cm Edition of 45: Hand-s...

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20th Century Minimalist Dan Flavin Art

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Lithograph

Dan Flavin, For Circular Fluorescent Light Of One Wall - Signed Print
Dan Flavin, For Circular Fluorescent Light Of One Wall - Signed Print

Dan Flavin, For Circular Fluorescent Light Of One Wall - Signed Print

By Dan Flavin

Located in Hamburg, DE

Dan Flavin (American, 1933-1996) For Circular Fluorescent Light Of One Wall, 1974 Medium: Lithograph on wove paper Dimensions: 18.5 x 31.5 cm Edition of 45: Hand-signed, titled and d...

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20th Century Minimalist Dan Flavin Art

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Lithograph

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Artist and Model Howard Hodgkin - green and yellow etching watercolour gouache
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Located in New York, NY

Abstract black, white and tan print of interior scene with dots, lines, shadow and painted brushstroke texture. Ideal for display in minimalist, modern and contemporary spaces. While British pop artists such as David Hockney and Patrick Caulfield numbered amongst Howard Hodgkin's circle of friends, Hodgkin's work is painterly, expressionist, and abstract. Late Afternoon in the Museum of Modern Art by Howard Hodgkin. Soft-ground etching on buff BFK Rives mould-made paper. Edition 100: this impression 36/100. Signed by the artist, numbered 36/100, and dated 79 lower center in red crayon. Printed from the same plate as Early Evening in the Museum of Modern Art. Published by Petersburg Press. This print depicts an abstracted scene, perhaps a sculpture in front of a window in the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, in Hodgkin's signature painterly style. The expressive mark-making in this print is an example of the artist’s movement in the late 70s towards pronounced gestures. Hodgkin used his hand as a mark-making tool, combining these textures with loose and urgent brushwork. Howard Hodgkin was introduced to the etching technique used in Late Afternoon in the Museum of Modern Art at Petersburg Press, where this print was produced and where he would become a long-time collaborator. This technique allowed him to work fluidly and spontaneously, creating the moody interior scenes that mark Hodgkin’s work from the late 70s and early 80s. Part of a series of four prints reflecting on a visit to the Museum...

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By Howard Hodgkin

Located in New York, NY

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Andy Warhol, Marilyn Monroe Print, Invitation to the Leo Castelli Gallery, 1981

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By Andy Warhol

Located in Beverly Hills, CA

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Located in Aventura, FL

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Located in New York, NY

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Jewish Museum Retrospective Poster
Jewish Museum Retrospective Poster

Jewish Museum Retrospective Poster

By Dan Flavin

Located in Toronto, Ontario

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1970s Minimalist Dan Flavin Art

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Untitled -- Print, Screen Print, Figure, Tatlin, Light, Minimalist by Dan Flavin

Untitled -- Print, Screen Print, Figure, Tatlin, Light, Minimalist by Dan Flavin

By Dan Flavin

Located in London, GB

DAN FLAVIN Untitled, 1973 Screenprint, on rag paper Signed, dated and numbered from the edition of 300 With the artist's copyright inkstamp verso From The New York Collection for St...

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Screen

For One Walled Circular Fluorescent Light

For One Walled Circular Fluorescent Light

By Dan Flavin

Located in Houston, TX

Suite of five lithographs with original title page and portfolio box. Each 22 1/8 x 30" Edition of 35

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