PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION

MATTHEW BARNEY (B. 1967)
CREMASTER 2: The Man in Black
signed and dated ‘Matthew Barney ‘99’ (on the reverse)
color coupler print in artist's self-lubricating acrylic frame
53 x 43 ⅛ in. (134.5 x 109.5 cm.)
Executed in 1999. This work is number four from an edition of six plus two artist's proofs

PROVENANCE
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2000

EXHIBITED
Kunstmuseum Bonn and Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, October 2011-January 2012, p. 204 (illustrated in color).

LITERATURE
N. Spector, Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle, exh. cat., New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2002, pp. 36 and 511 (another example from the edition illustrated in color).