.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
Know Nothing and If You Don't Want to Know the Definition Don't Open the Dictionary (from the Sublime)
Details
MIKE KELLEY (1954-2012)
Know Nothing and If You Don't Want to Know the Definition Don't Open the Dictionary (from the Sublime)
signed and dated 'Mike Kelley 1984' (on the reverse of each sheet)
acrylic on paper, in two parts
left: 69 x 47 ¾ in. (175.3 x 121.3 cm.)
right: 41 ¾ x 27 ¾ in. (106 x 70.5 cm.)
Executed in 1984.
Know Nothing and If You Don't Want to Know the Definition Don't Open the Dictionary (from the Sublime)
signed and dated 'Mike Kelley 1984' (on the reverse of each sheet)
acrylic on paper, in two parts
left: 69 x 47 ¾ in. (175.3 x 121.3 cm.)
right: 41 ¾ x 27 ¾ in. (106 x 70.5 cm.)
Executed in 1984.
Provenance
Lori and Ira Young, Los Angeles
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Private collection, 2001
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 2022, lot 876
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Private collection, 2001
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 2022, lot 876
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Literature
Mike Kelley 1985-1996, exh. cat., Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 1997, p. 6 (partially illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Metro Pictures and Los Angeles, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, The Sublime, January-March 1984.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles Museum of American Art and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Mike Kelley, 1994, pp. 152-153 (illustrated).
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou; New York, MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Mike Kelley, 2012, pp. 66-67 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles Museum of American Art and Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Mike Kelley, 1994, pp. 152-153 (illustrated).
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Paris, Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou; New York, MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Mike Kelley, 2012, pp. 66-67 (illustrated).
Brought to you by
Allison Immergut
Vice President, Specialist, Co-Head of Day Sale