Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Thomas Dane Limited, London
Acquired by the present owner from the above

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of wear and handling around the frame with scattered abrasions and scuffs to the metal. There are 2 small accretions to the Plexiglas on the lower side. There are artist's pinholes to each corner of the sheet.There are handling smudges to the lower left corner which appear to be inherent to the work and to the artist's working method. Framed in artist's frame under Plexiglas.
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“Violence used to be part of life in America and had a positive reputation… at a certain point violence used to describe sociology in a very positive way. There was a kind of righteousness about violence — the break with England, fighting for our rights, the Boston Tea Party. Now, in our culture as it is, there is one official social norm — and acts of violence, expressions of dissatisfaction are framed in an atomized view as being ‘abnormal.’” Cady Noland (Interview with Michèle Cone, Journal of Contemporary Art)