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MARTIN HONERT (b. 1953)
Mutprobe (Fliegende Klassenzimmer) [Test of Courage (Flying Classroom)]
acrylic on wood and polyester
177 x 7212 x 7812 in. (449.6 x 184.2 x 199.4 cm.)
Executed in 1999. This work is number two from an edition of two.
Provenance
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004
Literature
B. Groys, Martin Honert, New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, 2003, no. 37.
Exhibited
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Martin Honert, November-December 1999.
Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Forget the Ball and Play on: The Image of the Child in Contemporary Art, October 1999-January 2000.
Dresden, Galerie Neue Meister; Dresden, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Martin Honert: Test of Courage, 2000.
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