LOT DETAILS

Materials:

chalk on blackboard

Measurements:

50.75 in. (128.90 cm.) (height) by 74.61 in. (189.50 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 'Joseph Beuys Chikago, 1974' (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Public Dialogue, 15 January 1974. New York, Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, Rembrandt's Children: Joseph Beuys, Enzo Cucchi, Anselm Kiefer, Jannis Kounellis, November-December 1985.

Literature:

Thinking Is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1993, p. 72 (lecture view illustrated). K. Staeck and G. Steidl, eds., Beuys in Amerika, Heidelberg, 1987, p. 176 (lecture view illustrated). K. Staeck and G. Steidl, Beuys Book, Göttingen, 2012, n.p., (lecture view illustrated).

Provenance:

Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1985