Acrylic on paper
Sheet: 68.875 x 104;Frame: 72.625 x 108.25
Signature: Retains 43rd Biennale of Venice exhibition label verso
provenance: Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, California;Private Collection, United States (acquired directly from the above, 1985)
exhibited: Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, 1985; Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile, Metro Pictures, New York, 1986; LA Hot and Cool: The Eighties, group exhibition, List Center for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1987; Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile, 43rd Biennale of Venice, Aperto '88, Venice, 1988; Mike Kelley, traveling exhibition, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; CAPC Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, 1992; Mike Kelley: 1985-1996, traveling exhibition, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona; Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1997; Mike Kelley, traveling exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, December 15, 2012-April 1, 2013; Centre Pompidou, Paris, May 2-August 5, 2013; MoMA PS1, New York October 13, 2013-February 4, 2014; MOCA, Los Angeles, March 31, 2014-July 28, 2014
literature: Kelley, Mike. Plato's Cave, Rothko's Chapel, Lincoln's Profile. Venice/New York: New City Editions/Artists Space, 1986. Armstrong, Richard, and Elizabeth Sussman. Mike Kelley: Catholic Tastes. New York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1993. p 144; Lebrero Stals, Jose, ed. Mike Kelley. Exhibition Catalogue. Barcelona: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 1997. pp 31, 42; Welchman, John C, Isabelle Graw, and Anthony Vidler. Mike Kelley. 2nd edition. New York: Phaidon, 2011. p 14; Meyer-Hermann, Eva, and Lisa Gabrielle Mark, eds. Mike Kelley. Munich: DelMonico/Prestel, 2013. p 76.
