Editing Bruce Nauman (section)

==Art market==
Nauman's earliest supporters, in the 1970s, were mainly European patrons and institutions, such as the [[Kunstmuseum Basel]]. Chicago-based collector Gerald Elliott was the first American to amass a sizable number of Naumans, including the 1966 plaster sculpture ''Mold for a Modernized Slant Step'', all of which went to the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago]], when he died in 1994. Emerging later as a prominent buyer was [[Friedrich Christian Flick]], who collected more than 40 pieces from throughout Nauman's career.

Two of Nauman's early auction records were for monumental neons, both walls of blinking punning phrases: [[Sotheby's]] New York hammered down ''One Hundred Live and Die'' (1984) to the Benesse Art Site, in [[Naoshima, Kagawa|Naoshima]], Japan, for $1.9 million in 1992,<ref>Carol Vogel (November 18, 1992), [https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/18/arts/a-night-to-buy-low-at-sotheby-s.html A Night to Buy Low at Sotheby's] ''The New York Times''.</ref> and five years later sold ''Good Boy/Bad Boy'' (1986–87) to the [[Daros Collection]] in Zürich for $2.2 million. Nauman's neon work ''Violins Violence Silence'' (1981/82) realized $4 million at [[Sotheby's]] New York in 2009.<ref>Souren Melikian (November 12, 2009), [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/13iht-melik13.html Sotheby's, in a Dazzling Sale, Nets $134 Million] ''[[International Herald Tribune]]''.</ref>

By 2001, the sculpture ''Henry Moore Bound to Fail'' (1967), a wax and plaster cast of Nauman's own arms tied behind his back, had set a new auction record for postwar art when [[Christie's]] sold it for $9.9 million to [[François Pinault]]. In 2002, Sperone Westwater Gallery sold ''Mapping the Studio (Fat Chance John Cage)'' (2001), four videos showing Nauman's cat chasing mice during the night, for $1.2 million apiece to such museums as [[Tate Modern]], London; [[Dia Art Foundation]], New York; Kunstmuseum Basel; and [[Centre Pompidou]], Paris.

Nauman is represented by Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, and Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf and Berlin (since 1968).<ref name="Complex Cowboy: Bruce Nauman"/>