William Anastasi Puzzle for MoMA 1975

A jigsaw puzzle held in a tin can made by W. Anastasi for the MoMa musuem gift shop.  This is a fantastically impossible, and very humourous piece of art, in its own right.  It is essentially an unsolvable jigsaw puzzle.  The background of which is a simple light grey, with no picture to make up to help guide, as per normal puzzles.  On top of that, the actual 'picture' on the jigsaw is infact an image of another jigsaw.  So, the outlines further confuse as the attemp to connect shapes is unertaken.  Quite brilliantly confusing! William Anastasi is an American visual artist working in a wide range of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, photographic works, and text. He has lived and worked in New York City since the early 1960s and is known as "one of the most underrated conceptual artists of his generation".  His first solo exhibition took place in 1964 at the Betty Parsons gallery following a chance meeting with Philip Guston who recommended his work to Parsons. Following th