Lot 503
  • 503

Ilya Kabakov

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • Ilya Kabakov
  • The Open Closet, from the album Sitting-in-the-Closet Primakov, 1970-74
  • signed and titled in Cyrillic (lower right); inscribed Original drawing from the album "Sitting-in-the-closet-Primakov," by Ilya Kabakov /1970-74/. (below); includes a letter inscribed by Emilia Kabakov (attached on the reverse)
  • colored pencil and ink on paper

  • 8 1/4 by 11 1/4 in.
  • 21 by 28.6 cm

Provenance

Collection of the artist
Private collection, Oslo (acquired as a gift from the above)
Sale: Christie's, New York, December 16, 2005, lot 177, illustrated
Private collection, Kirkland, Washington

Literature

Boris Groys and Ilya Kabakov, Ilya Kabakov: Five Albums, exhibition catalogue, Helsinki: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, 1994, p.16, illustrated
Boris Groys, David A. Ross, and Iwona Blazwick, Ilya Kabakov, London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1998, p.43, illustrated