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Mike Kelley

Know Nothing and If You Don't Want to Know the Definition Don't Open the Dictionary (from the Sublime)

Auction Closed

November 17, 10:15 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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 Mike Kelley and dated 1984 (on the verso of each)

acrylic on paper, in 2 parts

i. 69 by 47¾ in. 175.3 by 121.3 cm.

ii. 41¾ by 27¾ in. 106 by 70.5 cm.

Executed in 1984. 

Lori and Ira Young, Los Angeles
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above in January 2001 by the present owner
Exh. Cat., Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (and travelling), Mike Kelley 1985-1996, 1997, p. 6, partially illustrated in color