Following Baldessari's seminal statement «I will not make any more boring Art», he conceived the work The Artist Hitting Various Objects with a Golf Club (1972 — 73), composed of 30
photographs of the artist swinging and hitting with a golf club objects excavated from a dump, as a parody of cataloging rather than a thorough straight classification.
The particular shape will be familiar to those who know Mr. Kelly's work — as art historian Pepe Karmel points out in his essay for the Mnuchin show, it is related to a
photograph the
artist took early in his career,
of the pendulous shape made by a
swing - set rope.
Among the other successful bidders spotted in the room were New York dealers Leo Koening, who snagged Richard Artschwager's 1969 celotex image
of a Woman on
Swing for $ 993,000; Christoph van de Weghe, who purchased Frank Stella's Carl Andre (1963), a striped parallelogram in metallic paint, for $ 3,961,000; and David Zwirner, who won Thomas Struth's panoramic 1992
photograph of the interior
of the Pantheon in Rome for $ 1,049,000 (one
of an edition
of 10), a new record for the
artist.