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ELAINE STURTEVANT (1924-2014)
Lot 293 THE COLLECTION OF THOMAS AND DORIS AMMANN

ELAINE STURTEVANT (1924-2014)

Johns Big Figure Five (Study)

Closed18 November 2022

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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.

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