LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil, silver foil and fabric collage on canvas

Measurements:

71.77 in. (182.30 cm.) (height) by 67.32 in. (171.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed with Artist's initials and dated 'K56' (Lower Center)

Exhibited:

New York, Bianchini Gallery, Ten From Rutgers University , 1965. Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, Allan Kaprow , 1967. This work later travelled to St. Louis, Washington University and Austin, University of Texas, 1968, no.15 (illustrated, p. 28). Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall, Allan Kaprow: Collagen, Environments, Videos, Broschüren, Geschichten, Happening und Activity-Dokumente 1956-1986 , 1986 (illustrated p. 12). Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Out of Actions: Performance and the Object 1949-1979 , 1998. This exhibition later travelled to Vienna, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art; Barcelona, Museu d’art Contemporani, 1998-1999 and Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999. New York, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts - Events, Objects, Documents , 1999. Munich, Haus der Kunst, Allan Kaprow. Art as Life , 2006, no. 15 (illustrated in color, p.109). This exhibition travelled to Genoa, Museo di Arte Contemporanea di Villa Groce, 2007; Berne, Kunsthalle Bern; Eindhoven, Van Abbemuseum and Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008. Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, New Realisms: 1957-1962, Objects Strategies Between Readymade and Spectacle , 2010 (illustrated in color, p. 19)

Literature:

A.Tišma, The Use of Man , Florida 1988 (illustrated in color on the cover). J. Kelley, Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow , Berkeley 2004, no. 1 (illustrated in color p. 170)