Larry Mayes, Scene of Arrest, The Royal Inn, Gary, Indiana. Police found Mayes hiding beneath a mattress in this room. Served 18,5 years of an 80-year sentence for rape, robbery and unlawful deviate

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Lot 1084 | Larry Mayes, Scene of Arrest, The Royal Inn, Gary, Indiana. Police found Mayes hiding beneath a mattress in this room. Served 18,5 years of an 80-year sentence for rape, robbery and unlawful deviate
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SIMON, TARYN
1975 New York

Title: Larry Mayes, Scene of Arrest, The Royal Inn, Gary, Indiana. Police found Mayes hiding beneath a mattress in this room. Served 18,5 years of an 80-year sentence for rape, robbery and unlawful deviate.
Subtitle: From the Series: Innocents.
Date: 2002.
Technique: C-Print.
Depiction Size: 122 x 157,5cm.
Number: 3/5.
Frame: Framed (123 x 158,5cm). Not examined out of the frame.

The work is listed on the artist's official website (www.tarynsimon.com).

Provenance:
- Gagosian Gallery, London

Exhibitions:
- Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen 2005/06
- Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden 2017/18
- Jeu de Paume, Paris 2015
- Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen 2006
- Museum Folkwang, Essen 2013/14

Literature:
- Heil, Axel/Schoppmann, Wolfgang/Museum Morsbroich (eds.): YES,YES,YES,YES - Differenz und Wiederholung in Bildern der Sammlung Olbricht, Heidelberg 2006, ill. p. 171
- Heil, Axel/Schoppmann, Wolfgang (eds.): Most Wanted - The Olbricht Collection - Some Recent Acquisitions, Cologne 2005, ill. p. 35.
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