Lot 543
  • 543

MIKE KELLEY | Garbage Drawing #21

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
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Description

  • Mike Kelley
  • Garbage Drawing #21
  • numbered 21 on the reverse
  • acrylic on paper
  • 24 by 32 in. 61 by 81.3 cm.
  • Executed in 1988.

Provenance

Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles 
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1991

Exhibited

University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Mike Kelley, Three Projects: Half a Man, From My Institution to Yours, and Pay for Your Pleasure, May - June 1988
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Mike Kelley, November 1993 - September 1994, p. 26, illustrated 

Literature

Isabelle Graw, Anthony Vidler and John C. Welchman, Mike Kelley, London 1999, p. 93, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat intermittently along the edges. There are artist pinholes in all four corners with associated faint circular impressions from the type of pin used to secure the sheet. Along the bottom edge, there are bits of errant media affixed to the sheet, likely from the time of execution. There is a slight undulation to the sheet. Framed under Plexiglas.
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