BARBARA KRUGER | Your Assignment is to Divide and Conquer

Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Max Protetch, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner 

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown Branch, [("' '")]: Frames of Reference, May - June 1982, cat. no. 5 (incorrectly titled and dated)

Exh. Cat., London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, We won't play nature to your culture: works by Barbara Kruger, 1983, p. 47, illustrated

This work is in very good condition overall. There is a small speck of red paint inside the Plexiglas, located to the left of the central face figure and 5 in. from the left edge. Framed under Plexiglas in artist's frame. There is evidence of wear and handling to the artist's frame.
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"I see my work as a series of attempts to ruin certain representations, to displace the subject and to welcome a female spectator into the audience of men." Barbara Kruger