
Study For Goya Series: To Do With
A conceptual work by John Baldessari, this piece from his Goya Series engages with the artist's signature practice of appropriating and recontextualizing existing imagery to provoke new layers of meaning. True to Baldessari's intellectual and often darkly playful approach, the work invites viewers to consider relationships between image, text, and cultural memory. The title's open-ended phrasing, "To Do With," suggests an incomplete or deliberately ambiguous connection, characteristic of Baldessari's interest in destabilizing fixed interpretations.
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- Auction House · Sotheby's
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Contemporary Photographs
September 27, 2019
Estimate: $12,000 – $18,000
Lot 44
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