Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Richard and Barbara Lane, New York (acquired from the above in 1995)
Sotheby's New York, November 15, 2001, lot 263
Acquired by the present owner from the above

New York, Dia Center for the Arts, Robert Gober, September 1992 - June 1993, pp. 20, 30, 47 and 57, illustrated in color (exhibition shots)
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Into a New Museum: Recent Gifts and Other Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Part II, 1995 (edition 4/10)
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection, 2004 (edition 4/10)

Marina Gržnic, "Robert Gober: Come, come into the traumatic space of reality," in Exh. Cat., Umag, Galerija Dante Marino Cettina, Robert Gober, July – August 1995, p. 27
Maureen P. Sherlock, "Decoy: Displacements of Loss and Hope," in Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly, eds., Robert Lehman Lectures on Contemporary Art, No. 1, New York, 1996, pp. 110-111
Paul Schimmel, "Gober is in the Details", in Exh. Cat., Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Robert Gober, 1997
Catrin Lundqvist, "Robert Gober," in Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Musset, Sår: mellan demokrati och förlösning i samtida konst/Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, 1998, p. 128
Exh. Cat., Minneapolis, Walker Art Center (and travelling), Robert Gober Sculpture + Drawing, 1999, p. 23, illustrated in color (Dia Center for the Arts, 1992, installation shot) 
James Romaine, "Closer to Heaven: The Art of Robert Gober", IMAGE: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, Fall 2000, pp. 30-31
Robert Haywood, "Robert Gober's Virgin and Drain", Thresholds, no. 23, Fall 2001, pp. 41-42
George Howell, "Object/Installation: The Two Sides of Robert Gober", Sculpture Magazine, Vol. 20, No. 5, June 2001, p. 43
Hal Foster, Prosthetic Gods, Cambridge, 2004, p. 333, illustrated (Dia Center for the Arts, 1992, installation shot)
Exh. Cat., Houston, The Menil Collection, Robert Gober: The Meat Wagon, 2005, pp. 16, 27, 32, 37 and 49, illustrated in color (installation shot)
Theodora Vischer ed., Robert Gober Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, Basel, 2007, cat. no. S 1992.04, p. 317, illustrated in color (edition unknown) and 🦂pp𓆏. 309 and 311, illustrated in color (Dia Center for the Arts, 1992, installation shot)

This sculpture is in very good condition. There are only very faint signs of handling along the edges. There are a few areas where slight losses have been retouched, all on either a back edge or the bottom which is not visible when the work is placed on the floor. Bottom facing as follows: 3/8 x 1/4 ``L'' shaped along back right corner= thin 1/8" on forward left corner= 1/8" spot located 1/2 in. from the left edge and 1 inch from the back=1/8 inch at back left corner. Along the back side edges: tiny pinpoint spots located 2 7/8 inches from bottom left corner and 5 1/8 inches from bottom right corner.
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