hand-tufted wool
7 ft. 11 in. x 5 ft. (241.3 x 112.3 cm)
number ten from and edition of fifteen plus two artist's proofs

Gorney Bravin + Lee Gallery, New York, acquired directly from the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2004

P. Devlin, New York: Behind Closed Doors, Layton, 2017, p. 179 (present lot illustrated in-situ)
W. Goodman, "Art Collector Barbara Jakobson's Vertical Life," New York Magazine, 24 May 2021, digital (present lot illustrated in-situ)

New York, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Design ≠ Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread, September 2004-February 2005, p. 121
New York, Tracy Williams, Ltd, Chick Lit: Revised Summer Reading, June-August 2013

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Barbara Bloom is a visual and conceptual artist who creates obsessive and object-rich installations meant to raise and discuss ethical and philiosophical issues. She designed the 'Lolita' rug for the centennial of writer Vladimir Nabokov's birth in 1999, as part of an installation recreating the writer's library. One room of this exhibition was filled with covers of different translations of his most famous and controversial novel Lolita. The present lot's minimal design is directly based on the author's first edition of the novel, which was initially banned in the United States.