Johns Big Figure Five (Study)

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ELAINE STURTEVANT (1924-2014)
Johns Big Figure Five (Study)
signed, titled and dated '"Johns Big Figure Five" (Study) Sturtevant '87' (on the reverse)
encaustic and printed paper collage on canvas
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm.)
Executed in 1987.

Provenance

Stefan Stux Gallery, New York
Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

K. Linker, "Elaine Sturtevant, 57 Stux + Haller Gallery," Artforum, New York, January 1988, p. 110.
L. Maculan, ed., Sturtevant. Catalogue Raisonné 1964-2004. Gemälde Skulptur Film und Video/Painting Sculpture Film and Video, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2005, p. 53, no. 35 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, Stefan Stux Gallery, Sturtevant., 1987 (illustrated).
Zurich, Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Andy Warhol to Elaine Sturtevant to Spencer Sweeney (& Back Again), March-May 2022.

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"My work has nothing to do with appropriation, the refocusing of history, or the death of art, or the negative questioning of originality. Rather just the opposite, as it involves the power and autonomy of originality and the force and pervasiveness of art."
– Sturtevant

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