Details
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).
Details
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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