Live Auction 10338Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Auction
John Baldessari (b. 1931)
Lot 224

John Baldessari (b. 1931)

Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads: Arm (with Shadow)

Closed12 February 2015

Price Realised

GBP 158,500

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John Baldessari (b. 1931)
Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads: Arm (with Shadow)
three dimensional archival print laminated with lexan and mounted on sintra, with acrylic paint
84¼ x 44½ in. (214 x 113cm.)
Executed in 2009

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon.
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Specialist note

‘It would appear from Baldessari’s most recent work that after having met the master of the all-but-lifeless-likeness in those aesthetically suspect regions … Baldessari elected to replace Warhol’s acrylic splashes and squiggles with loopy facial accents and punctuation marks … that effectively transform Warhol’s malerisch deadpan into crisp diacritical mugging. Whether or not Warhol is the cause, such surely is the Baldesarri effect’
(R. Storr, ‘High Brow – Low Brow – Eyebrow’, John Baldessari Raised Eyebrows/Furrowed Foreheads, New York 2009, pp. 10 – 11).