Lot 69: Jeff Wall (b. 1946)

Jeff Wall (b. 1946)
The Arrest
transparency in lightbox
53½ x 64 1/8 x 11 1/8in. (136 x 163 x 28.3cm.)
Executed in 1989, this work is number one from an edition of three plus one artist's proof

Cologne, Galerie Johnen & Schöttle, Jeff Wall, 1989 (another from the edition exhibited).
New York, Marian Goodman Gallery, A Group Show, 1990 (another from the edition exhibited).
Geneva, Galerie Pierre Huber, La revanche de l'image: part I, 1991 (another from the edition exhibited).
Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Jeff Wall, 1992 (another from the edition exhibited).
Humlebaek, Lousiana Museum of Art, Jeff Wall, 1992 (another from the edition exhibited).
Lucerne, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Jeff Wall, 1993 (another from the edition exhibited). This exhibition later travelled to Dublin, Irish Museum of Modern Art; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg; Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.
Norwich, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, Renegotiations: Class, Modernity and Photography, 1993 (another from the edition exhibited, illustrated in colour p. 41).

E. Heartney, 'Jeff Wall: Marian Goodman', in Art News, vol. 88, no. 10, December 1989, p. 160.
Jeff Wall, exh. cat., Tilburg, De Pont museum voor hedendaagse kunst, Foundation for Contemporary Art, 1994-1995, pp. 11 and 34.
F. Migayrou, Jeff Wall. Simple Indication, Brussels 1995, p. 110.
L. Baltz, 'Jeff Wall, peintre de la vie moderne', in L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, vol. 305, June 1996, pp. 13-15.
Art and Film Since 1945: Hall of Mirrors, exh. cat., Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1996-1998, p. 26.
R. Vine, 'Wall's Wager', in Art in America, vol. 84, no. 4, April 1996, pp. 89 and 91.
B. Gardner, 'Lakonie der Landschaft. Jeff Wall im Gespräch mit Belinda Gardner,' in Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende kunst, no. 4, August-September, 1996, p. 41.
T. de Duve, A. Pelenc, B. Groys, J.-F. Chevrier, Jeff Wall, London 1996 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 37).
C. Pontbriand, 'The non-sites of Jeff Wall/Die Nicht-Orte des Jeff Wall', in Parkett, no. 49, May 1997, pp. 98 and 103.
Jeff Wall, exh. cat., Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 1997 (another from the edition illustrated, unpaged).
C. Conter, Made in Canada. Das nationale Landschaftsbild Kanadas, dargestellt anhand der group of seven und ihrer zeit. Mit einem Ausblick auf das Naturgefühl bei zeitgenössischen Künstlern in Kanada, Salzburg 1998, pp. 310 and 314.
Jeff Wall: Bilder von Landschaften, exh. cat., Cologne, Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, 1999, pp. 27-30.
Jeff Wall: Figures & Places: Ausgewählte Werke von 1978 bis 2000 exh. cat., Frankfurt, Museum für Moderne Kunst, 2001, pp. 164, 170, 171 and 190.
Elusive Paradise: The Millennium Prize, exh. cat., Ottawa, National Literature Gallery of Ottawa, 2001, p. 128.
C. Walter, Bilder erzählen! Positionen inszenierter Fotographie: Eileen Cowin, Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman. Anna Gaskell, Sharon Lockhart, Tracey Moffatt, Sam Taylor- Wood, Weimar 2002, p. 125.
T. Vischer & H. Naef (eds.), Jeff Wall: Catalogue Raisonné 1978-2004, Göttingen 2005, no. 37 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 105).
M. Newman, Jeff Wall Works and Collected Writings, Barcelona 2007 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 89).
M. Lewis, J.-F. Chevrier, T. de Duve, A. Pelenc and B. Groys, Jeff Wall: The Complete Edition, London 2009 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 263).

Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva.
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1998.