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I pass the piece of buttered bread, it slips from my hands and, as always happens, falls with the buttered side down - not onto the floor but onto the dress of the woman next to me. from the series Fruits and Vegetables
I pass the piece of buttered bread, it slips from my hands and, as always happens, falls with the buttered side down - not onto the floor but onto the dress of the woman next to me. from the series Fruits and Vegetables
I pass the piece of buttered bread, it slips from my hands and, as always happens, falls with the buttered side down - not onto the floor but onto the dress of the woman next to me. from the series Fruits and Vegetables

I pass the piece of buttered bread, it slips from my hands and, as always happens, falls with the buttered side down - not onto the floor but onto the dress of the woman next to me. from the series Fruits and Vegetables

Artist Ilya Kabakov (Ukrainian, lived and worked in Long Island, New York, 1933-2023)
Date1979
MediumInk and colored pencil on paper
DimensionsImage: 34.3 x 24.1 cm (13 1/2 x 9 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 34.3 × 24.1 cm (13 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
Mount: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.)
ClassificationsDrawing
Credit LineNorton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union
Object number1999.0707.012
Collections
Exhibition History- Serialities: Repetition and Narrative in Soviet Nonconformist Art, 09/01/2005-03/01/2006, Zimmerli Art Museum, Dodge Wing Lower Level - "Dialogues—Ilya Kabakov and Viktor Pivovarov: Stories About Ourselves" 11/30/2019-03/29/2020, Zimmerli Art Museum, Dodge Wing Lower Level
Exhibitions

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