Original Condition (Victor Gruen, The Rosenstiel/Augunas Residence, 1950/2005)

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© Generali Foundation Collection—Permanent Loan to the Museum der Moderne Salzburg

Dorit Margreiter Choy

Original Condition (Victor Gruen, The Rosenstiel/Augunas Residence, 1950/2005), 2006

Part of the installation excerpt from a magazine, [USD 3,995,000, (Melinda Ridell)], color, dry mounted on card board 5.1 x 6 cm, framed 31.5 x 23.5 cm

GF0030731.09.0-2007

Artwork text

The advertisements document the sale of a villa by Austrian architect Victor Gruen in the Los Angeles Times between fall 2005 and spring 2006. Victor Gruen, who had to emigrate to New York in 1938, is considered the inventor of the shopping mall.

Lending history
2010 Madrid, ES, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS)