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Know Nothing; If You Don't Want to Know the Definition Don't Open the Dictionary (from the Sublime) [Two Works]
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MIKE KELLEY (1954-2012)
Know Nothing; If You Don't Want to Know the Definition Don't Open the Dictionary (from the Sublime) [Two Works]
signed and dated 'Mike Kelley 1984' (on the reverse of each sheet)
acrylic on paper
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; If You Don't Want to Know the Definition Don't Open the Dictionary (from the Sublime) [Two Works]
signed and dated 'Mike Kelley 1984' (on the reverse of each sheet)
acrylic on paper
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
Los Angeles, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, The Sublime, January-March 1984.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Mike Kelley, November 1993-April 1995, pp. 152-153 (illustrated).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Long Island City, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mike Kelley, December 2012-June 2014, pp. 66-67 (illustrated).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Munich, Haus der Kunst, Mike Kelley, November 1993-April 1995, pp. 152-153 (illustrated).
Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Long Island City, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Mike Kelley, December 2012-June 2014, pp. 66-67 (illustrated).
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Please note that this lot is two works.
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