Sturtevant

LOT 269 STURTEVANT B. 1926 LICHTENSTEIN STUDY FOR CRYING GIRL; LICHTENSTEIN STUDY FOR FRIGHTENED GIRL; LICHTENSTEIN STUDY FOR SLEEPING GIRL [THREE WORKS] i. titled ii. signed, titled and dated 88 iii. signed, titled and dated '88 graphite and colored pencil on paper Each Image: 4 3/4 by 4 3/4 in. 12.1 by 12.1 cm. Executed in 1988.

Sturtevant (b. 1926) Warhol Flowers signed, titled, inscribed and dated '"Warhol Flowers" e. sturtevant PARIS 1969/70' (on the reverse) synthetic polymer and silkscreen inks on canvas 22 x 22 in. (55.8 x 55.8 cm.) Painted in 1969-1970. Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne Private collection, Germany L. Maculan, ed., Sturtevant, Catalogue Raisonné 1964-2004, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2004, pp. 62 and 65, no. 84.

STURTEVANT (B. 1926) Sculpture de voyage, after Duchamp gouache on gelatin silver print in artist's frame 8½ x 8½ in. (21.5 x 21.5 cm.) Executed in 1969. Duchamp In Advance of the Broken Arm signed, titled and dated 'Duchamp In Advance of the Broken Arm e. sturtevant PARIS '67' (lower edge) gouache on gelatin silver print mounted on board in artist's frame 8 x 6 in. (20.3 x 15.2 cm.) Executed in 1967. Duchamp's In Advance of the Broken Arm signed, titled and dated 'Duchamp's In Advance of the Broken Arm Sturtevant Paris '67' (lower edge) gouache on gelatin silver print mounted on board in artist's frame 9 x 7 in. (22.8 x 17.7 cm.) Executed in 1967. (3) Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne Private collection Acquired from the above by the present owner PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION Cologne, Galerie Paul Maenz, Sturtevant, 1989.

Lot Description Sturtevant (b. 1926) Johns Target with Four Faces signed, titled, dedicated and dated '"JOHNS TARGET WITH FOUR FACES" Sturtevant 1987/90' (on the reverse) encaustic on printed paper collage on canvas and encaustic on plaster in wood construction 33½ x 26 x 3 1/8 in. (85 x 66 x 7.9 cm.) Executed in 1987-1990. Provenance Acquired from the artist Literature L. Maculan, ed., Sturtevant: Catalogue Raisonné 1964-2004, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2004, p. 52, no. 32 (illustrated). View Lot Notes › Using the same techniques, making the same errors, and thus coming out in the same place, Elaine Sturtevant, through the act of Duchampian appropriation, has made history by copying nearly exact articulations and spirit of the art of her contemporaries. Confirming Sturtevant's mastery in replication, when questioned about his process and technique, Warhol famously retorted, "I don't know. Ask Elaine." (Bill Arning, 'Sturtevant', Journal of Contemporary Art, vol. 2, no. 2, Fall/Winter 1989, p. 43.) In Johns Target with Four Faces (1987-1990), Sturtevant successfully confronts one of her most difficult challenges, the recreation of Jasper Johns' seminal encaustic work, Target with Four Faces, complete with tinted-plaster molds. In an interview with Leo Castelli, who admired and propelled both Sturtevant and Johns' careers, Sturtevant and Castelli expounded: Leo Castelli: Why did she do it? How did this idea occur to her. It was really at the time an incredibly original idea. It was quite amazing; although now you are used to it. At the time when she appeared we were also used to the fact that artists like Marcel Duchamp for instance, did very extravagant things. I think that some of this spirit was communicated, God knows how, to our friend who sits here [Sturtevant], and that she then proceeded to try to do paintings by Jasper, or others. I think it was as faithfully as you could do it? Elaine Sturtevant: Yes, as close as I could. As exactly as possible. L.C.: So that they would be really, if you didn't know, if you looked at them as close as possible, that this was a work by Oldenburg or Jasper Johns or Andy Warhol," (D. Cameron, "A Conversation: A Salon History of Appropriation with Leo Castelli and Elaine Sturtevant, Flash Art, no. 143, November - December, 1988, p. 76).

255 STURTEVANT Lichtenstein, Frighten Girl, 1966 Oil and graphite on canvas. 45 1/2 x 63 3/4 in. (115.6 x 161.9 cm) Signed, titled and dated "'Lichtenstein, Frighten Girl,' E. Sturtevant, Antibes/Paris, 1966" on the reverse. ESTIMATE $250,000-350,000 PROVENANCE Acquired directly from the artist, circa 1970s EXHIBITED Paris, Galerie J, America America , 1966 LITERATURE T. Osterwold, et. al., eds. Sturtevant, Württembergischer Kunstverein , Stuttgart, 1992 L. Maculan, Sturtevant: Catalogue Raisonné 1964-2004 , Frankfurt, 2005, pp. 107-108 (illustration from 1966 Galerie J exhibit) Place Bid Bidding Method In Person Absentee Phone Contact Specialist Request Condition Report Receive Email alerts “Adapting freely from the American art critic Alan R. Solomon’’s 1964 question ‘Is it a flag, or is it a painting?’’ we might ask: Is it a Johns, or is it a Sturtevant? It is interesting to note that, in the 1960s, Sturtevant’’s artist colleagues... Read More... View catalogue Purchase catalogue Annual subscriptions