Live Auction 20099Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)
Lot 471 Property from a New York Charitable Family Trust

DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)

Untitled (Pampers)

Closed13 May 2022

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DAVID WOJNAROWICZ (1954-1992)
Untitled (Pampers)
signed and dated 'WOJNAROWICZ '84 NYC' (lower right)
acrylic on found supermarket poster
44 x 32 in. (111.8 x 81.3 cm.)
Executed in 1984.

Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1985

Specialist note

"Printed supermarket ads provide the mundane background for a number of small paintings and prints of 1983 and 1984 that explode with violence and sexuality. Untitled [Pampers] (1984; no. 10) substitutes the comforting image of a baby with a murderous flurry of gore emanating from a bull's-eye centered on a detail of a dollar bill." (D. Cameron, "Passion in the Wilderness," Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowiz, New York, 1999, p. 8).