Blinky Palermo (Leipzig 1943 – 1977 Kurumba, Maldives). ”'who knows the beginning and who knows the end' II”. 1976 Acrylic on drawing paper, 2 sheets side by side mounted on cardboard. Each 29,6 × 20,9 cm (cardboard: 48 × 68 cm) (11 ⅝ × 8 ¼ in. (cardboard: 18 ⅞ × 26 ¾ in.)). Titled, signed and dated in pencil below: 'who knows the beginning and who knows the end' II Palermo 76. Moeller 462 (here titled: „II Who knows the beginning and who knows the end?“).– [3374] Provenance: Private Collection, Germany (1977 acquired at Galerie Erhard Klein, Bonn, thence by descent to the present owner) Exhibition: Zeichen setzen durch Zeichnen. Hamburg, Kunstverein, 1979, cat. no. 94, ill. p. 119 / Palermo. Bonn, Städtisches Kunstmuseum, 1981, cat. no. 72 a-b, ill. p. 39 / Palermo. Bonn, Kunstmuseum, 1994-95, ill. p. 56 - 57 / Blinky Palermo. Leipzig, Museum der bildenden Künste; Munich, Kunstraum, 1993, cat. no. 74, ill. p. 111 / Palermo - Who knows the beginning and who knows the end. Münster, LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte; St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum, 2011, cat. no. 46 and 47, ill. p. 10 / Palermo: Works on Paper 1976-1977. New York, David Zwirner, 2013, cat. no. 19