JOSEPH BEUYS (1921-1986)
La Jambe d'Orwell Pantalon pour le 21e Siècle (The Orwell Leg Trousers for the 21st Century)signed and titled 'la Jambe d'Orwell Pantalon pour le 21e siècle Joseph Beuys' (on a label attached to the front left pocket)
denim trousers and graphite on paper label
40⅞ x 26¾in. (103.8 x 68cm.)
Executed in 1984, this work is from an unlimited edition, each unique
Provenance:Editions Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.
Exhibited:Paris, Galerie Liliane et Michel Durand-Dessert,
Joseph Beuys, La Jambe d'Orwell, Pantalon pour le XXIe siècle, 1984 (others from the edition exhibited).
Literature:J. Schnellmann,
Joseph Beuys Die Multiples, Munich 1992, no. 485 (another from the edition illustrated, p. 365).
Joseph Beuys, exh. cat., Paris, Centre Pompidou, 1994 (installation view, another from the edition illustrated, p. 362).
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