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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 291

Dan Graham "Detail of Commercial Structure in Neo-Colonial Style" Photographs

Estimate: $600 - $1,200
Starting Bid
$300

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Full Title: Detail of Commercial Structure in Neo-Colonial Style, Westfield, New Jersey 

Signed and dated lower right. 

Date: 1978

 

Photograph: 6 1/2" Wide x 4 1/2" Tall (per photo)

Frame: 21" Wide x 11 3/4" Tall 

 

Condition: Fading to the photographs and some lift to the corners. Minor surface marks to the frame. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Dan Graham (1942-2022) grew up in Westfield, New Jersey, and never went to art school. In 1964 he opened the John Daniels Gallery in New York, which gave Sol LeWitt his first solo show, and when it closed he began making art himself. His breakthrough was "Homes for America," published in Arts Magazine in 1966 and 1967: a magazine layout of his own snapshots of tract houses with a deadpan text on their serial construction. By putting ordinary suburban building inside the debates of Minimal art, it became one of the key early works of Conceptual art.

Graham went on to make performances, film and video installations and, from the late 1970s, the two way mirror glass pavilions that occupied him for the rest of his career, but suburban and commercial architecture remained a constant subject. His photographs of storefronts, shopping strips and modest commercial buildings in New Jersey treat vernacular design with the same cool attention he gave the tract house. "Detail of Commercial Structure in Neo-Colonial Style, Westfield, New Jersey," signed and dated 1978, returns to his hometown.

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