Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Directions: Sherrie Levine, March - May 1988
Atlanta, The High Museum of Art, Art at the Edge: Sherrie Levine, June - September 1988

This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of minor wear and handling to the corners and turning edges of the artist's frame. There are some inherent variations to the plywood panel, due to the artist’s choice of medium. Under close inspection, there is a small area of pigment craquelure at the top right near the edge. Framed in artist's frame under glass.
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“Plywood’s most direct relationship to art comes from its use for crates built to protect painting and sculpture (particularly for shipping), but by making plywood her “canvas” Levine has reversed that role in the Knot Paintings. Although the title of these works can be read as a pun for “not painting,” by painting over or mimicking the shape of plugs that fill holes sometimes left by naturally occurring knots within the wood, she transforms ordinary plywood into a field of wood grain and painted knots. Knots are often considered imperfections in wood, but by using the ready-made compositions that the plugs produce... Levine’s Knot Paintings suggest that there is aesthetic pleasure to be mined in even the most ostensibly banal objects." Johanna Burton (Exh. Cat., 2011, Whitney Museum of American Art, Sherrie Levine: Mayhem, exhibition brochure)