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Mike Kelley (1954-2012)
Lot 117 IMAGINATION BECOMES REALITY
A SELECTION OF WORKS FROM THE GOETZ COLLECTION SOLD TO BENEFIT CHARITY PROJECTS

Mike Kelley (1954-2012)

Hidden Weakness, Hidden Strength

Closed14 February 2013

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GBP 27,500

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Mike Kelley (1954-2012)
Hidden Weakness, Hidden Strength
acrylic on paper, in two parts
each: 24 x 19in. (61 x 48.3cm.)
Executed in 1982

Metro Pictures, New York.
Skarstedt Gallery, New York.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's New York, 13 May 2009, lot 423.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Specialist note

'Physically there's no difference between fiction and memory - they become confused. In my case, things that I experience through film or literature become completely confused with real experience. So sometimes I don't know whether such a thing happened or didn't happen...'
(M. Kelley, quoted in Day is Done, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery, New York 2005, p. 472).