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Small Bathroom Sink
Robert Gober (American, b. 1954)
Title
Small Bathroom Sink
Artist
Robert Gober (American, b. 1954)
Date
1984
Medium
plaster, wire lath, wood, and semigloss enamel paint
Dimensions
12 × 26 × 30 in. (30.5 × 66 × 76.2 cm)
Classification
Sculpture
Credit Line
The Phillip G. Schrager Collection. Gift of Terri L. Schrager
Object Number
2024.15.6
On View
On view
Copyright
© Robert Gober, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery
Provenance
Purchased from Contemporary Art sale, Christie’s, New York, November 9, 1993, lot 55, 1993.
With Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, by 1993;
Purchased from Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, by Mr. Phillip G. Schrager (1937–2010), Omaha, Nebraska, November 12, 1993–2010;
Inherited by his wife, Mrs. Terri L. Schrager (b. 1953), Omaha, Nebraska, by 2016;
Her gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 2024.
Exhibition History
Robert Gober, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, February–March 1985.
Robert Gober, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 13–July 1, 1990. Traveled to: Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, September 1–October 14, 1990.
Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor, Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 11, 2014–January 18, 2015.
Published References
Robert Gober, Ulrich Loock, and Karel Schampers, Robert Gober, exh. cat. (Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen; Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1990), 53, (repro.).
“Lot 55: Robert Gober,” in Christie’s Contemporary Art, published in conjunction with the auction in New York, November 8, 1993 (New York: Christie’s, 1993), 118–19, (repro.).
Theodora Vischer, ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations, 1979–2007, exh. cat. (Münchenstein: Schaulager; Göttingen: Steidl, 2007), (repro.).
Ann Temkin, ed., Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2014), 135.
Karin Campbell, The Phillip G. Schrager Collection at the Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2024), 29, 31, 56–57, 141, (repro.).
