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EDWARD KIENHOLZ (1927-1994)
Lot 148 LA Cool: Property from the Laura Lee Stearns Collection

EDWARD KIENHOLZ (1927-1994)

Marlena Deepdich or a Portable Success Story

Closed13 May 2022

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USD 63,000

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EDWARD KIENHOLZ (1927-1994)
Marlena Deepdich or a Portable Success Story
incised with the title 'MARLENA DEEPDICH OR A PORTABLE SUCCESS STORY' (on a metal plaque affixed to the base)
box assemblage – wood, oil, canvas, nails, plastic and sheep's head
open: 24 x 35 x 11 in. (61 x 88.9 x 27.9 cm.)
closed: 24 x 17 x 11 in. (61 x 43.2 x 27.9 cm.)
Executed in 1961.

Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the late owner

Specialist note

"I mostly think of my work as the spoor of an animal that goes through the forest and makes a thought trail, and the viewer is the hunter who comes and follows the trail. At one point I as the trail-maker disappear. The viewer then is confronted with the dilemma of ideas and directions."
– Edward Kienholz