2001.342.A-B "Untitled" (Perfect Lovers), 1987-1990

Two synchronized clocks, like those typically found in offices and public spaces, are displayed side by side. One will inevitably stop before the other. The date of this work corresponds to the time during which Felix Gonzalez-Torres's partner, Ross Laycock, was ill, and it embodies the tension that comes from two people living side-by-side as life moves forward towards death. Laycock died of AIDS 6 years before Gonzalez-Torres's own death in 1996.

n.d.: Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

n.d.: Gorney Collection, New York

n.d.: Thomas H. Bjarnason, Toronto, Canada

2000: Howard Rachofsky, purchased through Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York [1]

2001: Dallas Museum of Art, fractional gift of The Rachofsky Collection [2]

Notes:

The main source for this provenance is the copy of the correspondence between The Rachofsky House and Andrea Rosen Gallery dated March 27, 2002, in the Collections Records object file (2001.342.A-B). Exceptions and other supporting documents are noted.

[1] See the copy of the invoice dated May 5, 2000, in the Collections Records object file (2001.342.A-B).

[2] See the copy of the Co-Tenancy Agreement in the Collections Records object file (2001.342.A-B).

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