Kiss me stupid, 1975
Watercolor on paper75.5 x 57 cm
29 3/4 x 22 1/2 inches
Signed and titled on front, lower right. Authentication document on the original picture signed by the artist. Archive number 763
Provenance:
Private collection
Exhibited:
2022, IT, Milan, Ambrosiana Art Gallery, Nessun giorno senza linea, p. 37
This watercolor precedes the celebrated painting Kiss Me Stupid (acrylic on canvas, 196 x 146 cm), dated on the reverse "30.3.75 - 6.6.75", which was exhibited and published on several occasions with Galerie Maeght, including at the Maison des Arts et Loisirs de Montbelliard (1976), Galerie Maeght, Paris (1976), Galerie Maeght, Barcelona (1976), and Galerie Maeght, Zurich (1976-1977, cat. no. 8 reproduced).
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