STURTEVANT (1924-2014)

Lot 40
18.05.2023 01:00UTC -05:00
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$ 500 000
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ID 949320
Lot 40 | STURTEVANT (1924-2014)
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$ 500 000 – 700 000
STURTEVANT (1924-2014)

Johns Painting with Two Balls

stenciled with the artist's name and title and dated 'PAINTING WITH TWO BALLS 1987 STURTEVANT' (lower edge); signed again, titled again and dated again '"Johns Painting with Two Balls" e. sturtevant '87' (on the reverse)

encaustic and paper collage on three joined canvases with metal brackets and two balls

65 x 54 1/8 in. (165.1 x 137.5 cm.)

Executed in 1987.





Provenance

Stefan Stux Gallery, New York

Bess Cutler Gallery, New York

Private collection, United States, 1988

Anon. sale; Phillips, New York, 14 November 2019, lot 3

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner



Literature

R. Smith, "Art: Sigmar Polke's Witty Disappearing Act", The New York Times, 6 November 1987, p. 32.

J. Waters and B. Hainley, Art - A Sex Book, New York, 2003, pp.18, 20-21 and 203 (illustrated).

L. Maculan, ed., Sturtevant: Catalogue Raisonné 1964-2004, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2004, p. 52, no. 31 (illustrated).



Exhibited

New York, Stux Gallery, Sturtevant., 1987, n.p. (illustrated).

Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Nice, Villa Arson, STURTEVANT, June 1992-March 1993, p. 81 (illustrated).
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