Key and Cue, No. 1755 (TO MAKE A PRAIRIE IT TAKES A CLOVER AND ONE BEE)

Details

Roni Horn (b. 1955)
Key and Cue, No. 1755 (TO MAKE A PRAIRIE IT TAKES A CLOVER AND ONE BEE)
incised with the title '1755' (on the underside)
aluminum and solid cast plastic
103 x 2 x 2 in. (261.6 x 5 x 5 cm.)
Executed in 1994/2003. This work is number two from an edition of three.

Provenance

James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2006

Exhibited

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Roni Horn: Events of Relation, November 1999-January 2000, p. 13 (another example illustrated).
London, Tate Modern; Avignon, Collection Lambert; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art and Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Roni Horn AKA Roni Horn, February 2009–May 2010, pp. 90, 91 and 224 (illustrated).
Sharon, The Granary, The Distaff Side, April 2013-January 2015, p. 218 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

To make a prairie (1755)

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
—Emily Dickinson

Key and Cue, No. 1755 (TO MAKE A PRAIRIE IT TAKES A CLOVER AND ONE BEE)

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