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John Baldessari — Study For Goya Series: To Do With
John Baldessari

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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Contemporary Photographs

September 27, 2019

Estimate: $12,000$18,000

Lot 44

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John Baldessari, 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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Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Conceptual, American, Text-Based, Mixed Media, Experimental, Analytical, Appropriation, Modern, Ironic, Contemporary

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Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery