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Robert Gober

Inverted Basin

1986

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Robert Gober

Inverted Basin

1986

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
Helen Molesworth, BMA, 'Bodyspace,' February 11-May 27 2001.
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.

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

Artist

Robert Gober

born Wallingford, CT 1954

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