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What to Drive Out?

(Chinese, born in 1963)
2008
Medium/TechniqueAcrylic paint and charcoal on paper
DimensionsOverall: 154.5 x 746 cm (60 13/16 x 293 11/16 in.)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds by exchange from the John Gardner Coolidge Collection, Bequest of Miss Ellen Starkey Bates, The John Pickering Lyman Collection—Gift of Miss Theodora Lyman, William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, Gift of Mrs. Dora Delano Forbes, and Julia Bradford Huntington James Fund
Accession number2008.172
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Provenance2008, Liu Xiaodong (b. 1964); sold by the artist to Mary Boone Gallery, New York; sold by Mary Boone Galery to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 25, 2008)
CopyrightReproduced with permission.
Restricted: For reference only
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