Howard Kanovitz

Cleo's View
1968

A woman with long hair, wearing a beige skirt and sweater, and brown shoes, is standing on a circular platform looking at a painting of a staircase that creates an optical illusion of ascending steps. The painting is on a gallery wall, and the staircase appears to be three-dimensional, with red carpeting and detailed woodwork.
A woman with long hair, wearing a beige skirt and sweater, and brown shoes, is standing on a circular platform looking at a painting of a staircase that creates an optical illusion of ascending steps. The painting is on a gallery wall, and the staircase appears to be three-dimensional, with red carpeting and detailed woodwork.

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Date
1968

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Acrylic and graphite pencil on shaped linen, two parts

Dimensions
Overall: 115 × 78 1/8 × 74in. (292.1 × 198.4 × 188 cm)

Accession number
69.12

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art

Rights and reproductions
© The Howard Kanovitz Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Howard Kanovitz
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