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Robert Gober

Inverted Basin

1985

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Robert Gober

Inverted Basin

1985

Physical Qualities Plaster and wire lath, 22 x 25 1/4 x 7 in. (55.9 x 64.1 x 17.8 cm.)
Credit Line Fanny B. Thalheimer Memorial Fund, and Contemporary Art Fund
Object Number 1997.102
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase, 1997; D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York; Cynthia Lowenthal Plehn, 1986; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles; the artist
Ulrich Loock, Karel Schampers, Trevor Fairbrother, 'Robert Gober,' Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1990, ill. p. 66. (not indicated whether or not BMA's work was in exhibition).
Joan Simon and Catherine David, 'Robert Gober,' Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1991. BMA's work shown in process of construction in artist's studio, 1986, p. 43.
Phyllis Rosenzweig, 'Robert Gober Sculpture + Drawing,' Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Feb. 24-Apr. 23, 2000. Holland Carter, 'An Impresario of Menace in Simple Things,' The New York Times, Mar. 26, 2000, Arts & Leisure, pp. 1 and 44.

Inscribed: VERSO: pencil, in artist's hand, '[directional arrow] 'The Perverted Basin'/1986/GOBER/Hang nail 63' from floor'

Artist

Robert Gober

1953–2000

born Wallingford, CT 1954
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