LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Enamel paint on wooden panel
Measurements:
89.17 in. (226.50 cm.) (height) by 58.46 in. (148.50 cm.) (width)
Markings:
Signed, titled and dated 'I.Kabakov Beetle 1982 [in Cyrillic]' on the stretcher.
Exhibited:
New York, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Ten Characters, 30 April - 11 June, 1988; Washington DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Ten Characters, 1990; Prato, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Contemporary Russian Artists, 10 February - 14 May, 1990; Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Ilya Kabakov - Der Lesesaal (The Reading Room), 19 April - 28 July, 1996
Literature:
A.Alexeev, A.Kosolapov, I.Shelkovski (Eds.), 'In the Studio; Ilya Kabakov', in a(AYA), Contemporary Russian Art, Unofficial Russian Art Review, Paris, 1984, no.6, p.33 (illustrated); M.Tupitsyn, Margins of Soviet Art, Milan, 1989, p. 43; B.Groys, Gli artisti russi degli anni ottana: La bella vita senza il complesso di Edipo, Contemporary Russian Artists, Prato, 1990, p.75 (illustrated); A.Wallach, Ilya Kabakov, The man who never threw anything away, New York, 1996, p.158 (illustrated); B.Groys, 'The Movable Cave, or Kabakov's Selfmemorials', Ilya Kabakov, 1998, London, p.55 (illustrated); Z.Felix, Ilya Kabakov, The Text as the Basis of Visual Expression, Köln, 2000, p.149 (illustrated)
Provenance:
Livet Reichard Company, Inc., New York