Live Auction 16979Post-War and Contemporary Art Afternoon Session
Sturtevant (1924-2014)
Lot 838

Sturtevant (1924-2014)

Warhol Flowers

Closed16 May 2019

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USD 287,500

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Sturtevant (1924-2014)
Warhol Flowers
signed, inscribed, titled and dated '"WARHOL FLOWERS" e. Sturtevant collection of the artist 1965' (on the reverse)
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
22 x 22 in. (56 x 56 cm.)
Painted in 1965.

The artist, Paris
Private collection, Paris
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 9 May 2012, lot 453
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Specialist note

"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