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Telepathic Music No. 2

Robert Filliou French, 1926 - 1987
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About the Artwork

Telepathic Music No. 2

1973

Robert Filliou

1926 - 1987

French

Unknown

Cardboard, gelatin silver print, paper, and rubber stamp

Framed: 23 × 23 inches (58.4 × 58.4 cm)

Drawings

Contemporary Art after 1950

Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection

2023.534.2

Copyright not assessed, please contact [email protected].

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Signed, in black pen, lower right, after inscription: R Filliou

Inscribed, in pencil, under image: Telepathic Music no 2: first random performance with 50 odd [?]| music stands bearing identical scores spread in the garden of the | Academie der Kunste, Berlin, september 1973

Stamped, lower left, on cardboard: PRINCIPLE OF EQUIVALENCE | PERMANENT CREATION | WELL MADE ……… | BADLY MADE ……… | NOT MADE ………. Printed on card mounted on cardboard lower right corner: CONCENTRATING SILENTLY | SEND WAVES OF | GREETINGS | WEATHERLUCK | MANLUCK | WOMANLUCK | TO ANY OR ALL OF THE MEMBERS | OF THE ETERNAL NETWORK THE | WORLD AROUND Printed and typed exhibition label verso: MASS MoCA | MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | 1940 MASS MoCA WAY NORTH ADAMS MASSACHUSETTS 01247 | FLUXUS GAMES | From the Gilbert and Lila | Silverman | Fluxus Collection Foundation, | Detroit | June 15, 2001 – January 13, 2002 Yaw Gallery Label verso: YAW | GALLERY | [address] Printed UV protection label lower left verso: ULTRAVIOLET FILTER ACRYLIC | SHEET COVERS WITH ARTWORK. | CLEAN ONLY WITH ACRYLIC | CLEANER AND FACIAL TISSUE

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1984, purchased John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY

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Robert Filliou, Telepathic Music No. 2, 1973, cardboard, gelatin silver print, paper, and rubber stamp. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Lila and Gilbert Silverman Collection, 2023.534.2.

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