On Kawara

Japanese (77 years old, born 1933)
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: £115,000

Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Day
London, February 12, 2010
Lot: 172

June 4, 1991 (1991)
liquitex on canvas and handmade cardboard box with newspaper clipping from the New York Times
10 x 13in. (25.5 x 33cm.)
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: £160,000

Christie's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening
London, February 11, 2010
Lot: 49

January 23, 1995 (1995)
Liquitex on canvas and handmade cardboard box with newspaper clipping from the New York Times
10 x 13in. (25.4 x 33cm.)
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $165,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Day Auction
New York, November 12, 2009
Lot: 231

Nov. 8, 1977 (Today Series, No...
Executed on November 8, 1977.
liquitex on canvas with newspaper clipping in artist's cardboard box
8 1/8 by 10 1/8 in. 20.6 by 25.7 cm.
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $320,000

Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Afternoon Session
New York, November 11, 2009
Lot: 341

February 10, 1982 (1982)
Liquitex on canvas and handmade board box with newspaper clipping from The Daily News
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 60.9 cm.)
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $82,000

Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Afternoon Session
New York, November 11, 2009
Lot: 342

I Got Up

ink on seventy-two mailed postcards
thirty-one postcards, each: 3 5/8 x 5½ in. (9.5 x 14 cm.)
forty-one postcards, each: 4 1/8 x 6 in. (11 x 15.3 cm.)
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $42,000

Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Afternoon Session
New York, November 11, 2009
Lot: 345

I Got Up

ink on twenty-seven mailed postcards
each: 4 1/8 x 5¾ in. (10.4 x 14.6 cm.)
Executed between 14 January--9 February 1977. (27)
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: £170,000

Phillips De Pury Contemporary Art Evening Sale
London, October 17, 2009
Lot: 29

APR. 8, 1978

Liquitex on canvas with newspaper clipping in artist's cardboard box.  33 x 44 cm. (13 x 17 1/4 in).  
This work belongs to the Today series and is sold with the original handmade cardboard box containing a New York Times newspaper clipping from 8 April, 1978.
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $8,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Art
New York, September 24, 2009
Lot: 110

I Am Still Alive
Stamped 'Milano Telegrafo Princ.Le' and dated '12.7.79'
typed telegram
6 by 8 1/4 in. 15.2 by 21 cm.
Artwork
ON KAWARA


Christie's Post-War And Contemporary Art Afternoon
New York, May 14, 2009
Lot: 319

November 30, 1983 (1983)
Liquitex on canvas and handmade cardboard box with newspaper clipping from The New York Times
10 x 13 in. (25.4 x 33 cm.)
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $160,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Day
New York, May 13, 2009
Lot: 150

Sept. 10, 1967

13 by 17 in. 33 by 43.4 cm.
liquitex on canvas
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: £130,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Evening
London, February 5, 2009
Lot: 2

8 Jan. 1973

measurements
26 by 33cm.
alternate measurements
10 1/4 by 13in.
liquitex on canvas with newspaper clippings in artist's cardboard box
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $220,000

Christie's Post-War And Contemporary Art Afternoon
New York, November 13, 2008
Lot: 320

April 18, 1986 (1986)
Liquitex on canvas and handmade cardboard box with newspaper clipping from The New York Times
10 x 13 in. (25.4 x 33 cm.)
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $250,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Day
New York, November 12, 2008
Lot: 178

June 19, 1967

10 by 13 in. 25.4 by 33 cm.
liquitex on canvas
Artwork
ON KAWARA


Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art
London, South Kensington, April 2, 2008
Lot: 575

I am still alive

typed telegram with envelope
telegram: 5 3/8 x 7¾in. (13.7 x 19.7cm.)
envelope: 4½ x 9in. (11.5 x 22.9cm.)

Artwork
ON KAWARA


Christie's Post-War & Contemporary Art
London, South Kensington, April 2, 2008
Lot: 608

I am still alive

typed telegram
6 x 8¼in. (15.2 x 21cm.)

Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: £120,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Art Day
London, New Bond Street, February 28, 2008
Lot: 386

December 5, 1990

liquitex on canvas with newspaper clipping in handmade cardboard box
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $300,000

Phillips De Pury Contemporary Art Part I
New York, November 15, 2007
Lot: 51

19.OKT.1976 (1976)
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $19,000

Sotheby's Contemporary Art
New York, November 15, 2007
Lot: 267

I Am Still Alive

Other
Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $450,000

Christie's Post War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
New York, November 14, 2007
Lot: 399

Apr. 22 (1967)
Liquitex on canvas and newspaper collage with artist's handmade cardboard box
10 x 13 in. (25.4 x 33 cm.)

Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $2,100,000

Christie's Post War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale
New York, November 13, 2007
Lot: 55

DEC. 1, 1974 (TODAY SERIES #54...

DEC. 2, 1974 (TODAY SERIES #55)
DEC. 3, 1974 (TODAY SERIES #56)
DEC. 4, 1974 (TODAY SERIES #57)
DEC. 5, 1974 (TODAY SERIES #58)
DEC. 6, 1974 (TODAY SERIES #59)
DEC. 7, 1974 (TODAY SERIES #60)

Artwork
ON KAWARA
Winning Bid: $380,000

Phillips De Pury Contemporary Art Part I
New York, May 17, 2007
Lot: 41

?Monday? Sept. 6, 1999. ?Today... (1999)

Galleries showing On Kawara

Berlin
Barbara Wien
Bruxelles
mfc-michèle didier
Düsseldorf
Konrad Fischer Galerie
London
Yvon Lambert Gallery (closed)
München
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle
New York
Yvon Lambert Gallery
The Wrong Gallery (closed)
David Zwirner
Zwirner & Wirth
Paris
Yvon Lambert Gallery

Solo Shows with On Kawara

On Kawara One Million Years at David ZwirnerJan 14, 2009-Feb 14, 2009
David Zwirner is pleased to present One Million Years by On Kawara. The on-going project began with the leather-bound twenty-volume set of books One Million Years [Past] and One Million Years [Future] created by the artist in 1969. For the artwork...

Group Shows with On Kawara

6 Works, 6 Rooms at David ZwirnerJun 27, 2009-Aug 14, 2009
A group exhibition of six individual works by Dan Flavin, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, John McCracken, Fred Sandback & Richard Serra....
Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)Sep 10, 2008-Mar 23, 2009
The fifth in a series of installations focusing on MoMA's contemporary holdings, Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art maps a chronological path through the art of the recent past. The exhibition brings together photographs, paintings, scul...

Exhibitions by iCI - Independent Curators International

Beyond Preconceptions: The Sixties Experiment(2000 - 2002)
From the Collection of Sol LeWitt(1984 - 1986)

Awards

The Carnegie PrizePosted: 2007-05-18
Received in 1991

Exhibitions

Documenta 11, 2002Posted: 2007-05-20
All Artists in Documenta 11, 2002

Museum Collections


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